Madan Mitra to undergo surgery today

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra will undergo a surgery on Thursday morning at

Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research

(IPGMER) to remove a tumour from his vocal cord. Sources at the hospital said general condition of the 67-year-old is good.“He will undergo a procedure called microlaryngoscopy to remove a tumour from his left vocal cord. The surgery will be conducted under general anaesthesia. We will send the tumour for biopsy later,” said

Arunabha Sengupta

, ENT head at IPGMER. A medical board has been formed to examine him.Mitra came to the hospital on Tuesday evening with complaints of hoarseness in the voice. He was admitted immediately. Doctors at the state-run hospital had detected the tumour in November last year.