{"id":302007,"date":"2018-08-31T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302007"},"modified":"2018-08-31T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:29:09","slug":"himachal-pradesh-former-cm-virbhadra-singh-hospitalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-former-cm-virbhadra-singh-hospitalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Former CM Virbhadra Singh hospitalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302008 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/virbhadra-singh-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/virbhadra-singh-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/virbhadra-singh-477x420.jpg 477w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/virbhadra-singh.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and senior Congress leader Virbhadra Singh on Thursday admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) in Shimla following\u00a0complaints of chest congestion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh was admitted at around 5 pm after he felt uneasy, no serious problem had been found in the preliminary medical report, his\u00a0condition is stable now and will be discharged within two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further medical tests are going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">84-year-old Virbhadra Singh became the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh for the first time in April 1983 and held the post until March 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later he held the office of chief minister of Himachal Pradesh for 3 more terms with his last time ending in December 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh is reportedly the longest-serving chief minister of Himachal Pradesh. He was succeeded by Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s (BJP) Jai Ram Thakur in December 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and senior Congress leader Virbhadra Singh on Thursday admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) in Shimla following\u00a0complaints of chest congestion. Singh was admitted at around 5 pm after he felt uneasy, no serious problem had been found in the preliminary medical report, his\u00a0condition is stable now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[236,1340,4517,4516,4515,2662,2663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302009,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302007\/revisions\/302009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}