Senior BJP leader and union minister for rural development Gopinath Munde Dies of Heart Attack
Posted on: 03/Jun/2014 11:09:18 AM
Mr Gopinath Munde who is the senior BJP leader and union minister for rural development died this morning of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi. He was 64.
At about 6.20 this morning, Mr Munde was on his way to the Delhi airport when an Indica car crashed into the minister`s SX4 car at the the Prithviraj Road and Aurobindo Chowk cross-section in the heart of the capital.
Doctors quoted the minister`s personal staff as saying that the vehicle crashed into the car on the side that the minister was seated in the rear seat. Mr Munde, who seemed to have suffered minor injuries, was in shock, his staff members said. He had asked for water, they said.
Mr Munde`s driver and personal assistant were in the front and were unhurt. They rushed him to the trauma centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The doctors tried to revive the minister, but could not and pronounced him dead at 7.20 am.
Former BJP president and union minister Nitin Gadkari said at the hospital that Mr Munde`s body will be taken to the BJP office at 11 Ashoka Road. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others will pay their respects.
At about noon, the body will be flown to Latur in Maharashtra and then to Parli in Beed district, Mr Munde`s hometown.
Mr Munde`s last rites will be performed in Parli on Wednesday.
The union cabinet will meet at 4 pm today to condole Mr Munde`s death.
