{"id":305874,"date":"2018-11-21T05:39:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305874"},"modified":"2018-11-21T05:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:39:44","slug":"congress-mp-mi-shanavas-passes-away-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-mp-mi-shanavas-passes-away-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress MP MI Shanavas passes away at 67"},"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-305875 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/shanavas-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/shanavas-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/shanavas-696x508.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/shanavas-575x420.jpg 575w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/shanavas.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">MI Shanavas, the working president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) and Member of Parliament (MP) from Wayanad, passed away in a hospital in Chennai in the early hours of Wednesday.He was 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Shanavas, who was undergoing treatment in a speciality hospital following a lung transplant, passed away following a deterioration in health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His mortal remains will be brought to Kochi on Wednesday afternoon. The last rites are expected to be held on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shanavas was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in 2009 and in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed grief over the demise of Shanavas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMourning the loss of my LokSabha colleague MI Shanavas of Wayanad. He was ailing for some time. A man of good heart &amp; spirit, I last saw him on his appointment as one of @INCKerala\u2019s Working Presidents. A painful loss for all of us. My thoughts &amp; prayers are with his family.\u201d Tharoor tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MI Shanavas, the working president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) and Member of Parliament (MP) from Wayanad, passed away in a hospital in Chennai in the early hours of Wednesday.He was 67. According to the reports, Shanavas, who was undergoing treatment in a speciality hospital following a lung transplant, passed away following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,9797,4089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305874"}],"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=305874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305876,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305874\/revisions\/305876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}