{"id":51207,"date":"2014-06-03T10:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=51207"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:02:13","slug":"indian-minister-dies-in-road-accident-51207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indian-minister-dies-in-road-accident-51207\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian minister dies in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51208\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51208\" alt=\"File picture of Indian minister Gopinath Munde.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Indian-Ministers-Munde-Nationalturk-3.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Indian-Ministers-Munde-Nationalturk-3.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Indian-Ministers-Munde-Nationalturk-3-177x220.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File picture of Indian minister Gopinath Munde.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>An Indian minister, 64, was killed in a road accident in Indian capital on Tuesday morning.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, June 3\/Nationalturk \u2013 An Indian minister and senior leader of ruling rightwing Hindu group BJP was killed in a road accident in Indian capital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A police official said at around 0620 hours today, Indian minister for Rural Development Gopinath Munde was on way to airport to visit the financial capital, Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA car crashed into the minister&#8217;s SX4 car at the Prithviraj Road and Aurobindo Chowk cross-section in New Delhi, Indian capital, on the rear side where minister was seated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said 64-year-old minister suffered injuries in the accident. \u201cHe was in shock and immediately evacuated to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no spontaneous breathing, no pulse and no cardiac activity when the minister was brought to the hospital,&#8221; a doctor, who attended on him in the hospital, said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the doctors tried to revive the minister, but they could not and pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n<h2>Driver of vehicle that hit minister\u2019s car detained<\/h2>\n<p>Police said driver of the vehicle that crashed into minister\u2019s vehicle has been detained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been booked under Indian Penal Code&#8217;s sections 304A and 279 for death due to negligence and rash driving,\u201d a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>Munde was a senior leader of BJP and hailed from Indian State of Maharashtra. He was a deputy chief minister of the state between 1995 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>His body will be created tomorrow.<\/p>\n<h3>Indian PM, other parties condole Munde\u2019s demise<\/h3>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled his demise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely saddened and shocked by the demise of my friend and colleague Gopinath Munde. His demise is a major loss for the nation and the government. He was a true mass leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Modi said Munde hailed from backward section of society and rose to great heights and tirelessly served people. \u201cHis demise leaves a void hard to fill. We stand by his family in this hour of grief,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting across party lines, leaders of all political parties in India have condoled his demise<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian minister, 64, was killed in a road accident in Indian capital on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[10772,50018,70019,41694,70017,2546,38537,62534,70020,9233,14090,55250,41689,5000,70018,49783,70016],"class_list":["post-51207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-accident","tag-aiims","tag-aurobindo-chowk","tag-bjp","tag-gopinath-munde","tag-india","tag-indian-capital","tag-indian-minister","tag-indian-penal-code","tag-indian-prime-minister","tag-killed","tag-maharashtra","tag-narendra-modi","tag-new-delhi","tag-prithviraj-road","tag-rightwing-hindu-group","tag-senior-bjp-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}