{"id":302366,"date":"2018-09-07T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302366"},"modified":"2018-09-07T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:15:11","slug":"gujarat-hardik-patel-hospitalised-as-health-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-hardik-patel-hospitalised-as-health-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat: Hardik Patel hospitalised as health worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-302097 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hardik-patel-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik-patel-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik-patel-400x420.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik-patel.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel was on Friday hospitalised as he complained of difficulty in breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 25-year-old was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital in Sola a day after he gave up water in protest against the government ignoring his demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He has lost over 20 kg in the past two weeks because of his indefinite fast, his kidney and liver had also been affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hardik\u2019s associates in the PAAS had served the Bhartiya Janata Party government (BJP) a 24-hour ultimatum on Wednesday to initiate talks with him over their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PAAS spokesman said the ultimatum expired at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Hardik decided to stop consuming water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On August 25, Hardik Patel had launched his fast for demands, including reservation for the Patidar community under OBC category in government jobs and education sector and to waive the loans of the state farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel was on Friday hospitalised as he complained of difficulty in breathing. The 25-year-old was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital in Sola a day after he gave up water in protest against the government ignoring his demands. He has lost over 20 kg in the past two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[3852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302366"}],"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=302366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302371,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302366\/revisions\/302371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}