{"id":303777,"date":"2018-10-05T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303777"},"modified":"2018-10-05T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:01:47","slug":"bengaluru-newly-elected-deputy-mayor-ramila-umashankar-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengaluru-newly-elected-deputy-mayor-ramila-umashankar-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Newly elected Deputy Mayor Ramila Umashankar passes away"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-303778 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/umashankar-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/umashankar-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/umashankar.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The newly elected deputy mayor of Bengaluru Ramila Umashankar died of a cardiac arrest on Friday. She was 44.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramila from JDS was elected as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) deputy mayor on September 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Umashakar is survived by her husband and two children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, she had participated in the Namma Metro flagging off event with the chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy expressed heartfelt condolences on the demise of Deputy Mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeeply saddened to hear of the demise of Deputy Mayor Rameela Umashankar. She had actively participated with us at the Namma Metro flagging off event just yesterday. She was a dedicated social worker and committed party worker. It&#8217;s shocking to learn that she is no more with us,\u201d Kumaraswamy tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumaraswamy further said, \u201cMy heartfelt condolences to her family. May her soul rest in peace. Pray the Almighty gives courage and strength to the family to bear this loss. #RameelaUmashankar #RIP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected deputy mayor of Bengaluru Ramila Umashankar died of a cardiac arrest on Friday. She was 44. Ramila from JDS was elected as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) deputy mayor on September 2. Umashakar is survived by her husband and two children. On Thursday, she had participated in the Namma Metro flagging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,3396,5424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303777"}],"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=303777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303779,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303777\/revisions\/303779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}