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Written By: Editorial Team | Updated : June 3, 2014 10:34 AM IST
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde on Tuesday died in a car accident here, doctors said.
'On his arrival to the AIIMS trauma centre, there was no spontaneous breathing, no blood pressure, no pulse and there was no cardiac activity. So immediately CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) was started and continued for the next 15 minutes.
'Despite all aggressive resuscitative measures, he could not be revived and has been declared dead at 7.20 a.m. Immediately the CPR was started and was continued for the next 50 minutes,' an AIIMS doctor told media.
Munde was brought to the hospital by his personal assistant and driver at 6.30 a.m. 10 minutes after he met with an accident, the doctor. Munde was on his way to an airport in the morning when the accident took place at Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi, police said.
BJP and Modi shocked
The death of Union Minister Gopinath Munde in a car accident in Delhi early Tuesday sent shockwaves through the political circles in Maharashtra. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that around 8 a.m. the doctors at the AIIMS Hospital pronounced Munde dead.
This came as the second major setback for the entire Bharatiya Janata Party, coming as it did barely eight years after the killing of Munde's brother-in-law and senior party leader, the 56-year-old Pramod Mahajan May 3, 2006, in Mumbai. Munde was rushed to the hospital after the car accident on Aurobindo Road, very close the residence of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, he added.
Gadkari said that later on Tuesday Munde's body would be taken to his native village, Parali in Beed district of Maharashtra, for the funeral Wednesday. The former BJP president said that Munde's family members were already at Mumbai airport and would reach New Delhi later in the morning. News of Munde's death following serious injuries on the head and chest in the accident led top political leaders and activists to catch flights, trains to New Delhi.
Gopinath Munde was 'a true mass leader', said Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was 'extremely saddened and shocked' by the union minister's death. 'My tributes to a dynamic leader whose premature demise leaves a void hard to fill,' tweeted Modi. Modi said in another tweet: 'Gopinath Munde ji was a true mass leader. Hailing from backward sections of society, he rose to great heights & tirelessly served people.'
'Extremely saddened & shocked by the demise of my friend & colleague Gopinath Munde ji. His demise is a major loss for the Nation & the Govt.'
Source: IANS
