Port Blair, May 5: Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, President ANTCC and other senior leaders of the Congress Party deeply mourn the sad and untimely demise of Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh and a great leader of the Congress Party. Shri Dorjee died in a helicopter crash on 4th of May 2011 in Arunachal Pradesh. 
 
Sharma said in a press release that the death of Dorjee Khandu is a great loss to the country as a while and particularly to the state of Arunachal Pradesh. His death is an irreparable loss to the Conggress party.