{"id":314275,"date":"2019-07-28T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T05:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314275"},"modified":"2019-07-28T05:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T05:26:43","slug":"former-union-minister-jaipal-reddy-passes-away-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-union-minister-jaipal-reddy-passes-away-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Union minister Jaipal Reddy passes away at 77"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-314276 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jaipal-reddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/jaipal-reddy.jpg 606w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/jaipal-reddy-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union minister and senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy passed away at a private hospital in Hyderabad in the early hours of Sunday. He was 77.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Reddy was diagnosed with pneumonia for some time and had been undergoing treatment at Asian Institute of Gastro-enterology. On Saturday night, his condition turned critical and he breathed his last at around 1.28 am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind called Jaipal Reddy a thinking person&#8217;s politician and an outstanding parliamentarian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSorry to hear of the passing of Shri S. Jaipal Reddy, former Union Minister. He was a thinking person\u2019s politician and an outstanding parliamentarian. My condolences to his family and many associates,\u201d President Kovind tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi said Jaipal Reddy was an outstanding parliamentarian who dedicated his entire life towards public service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry to hear about the sad demise of former Union Minister &amp; veteran Congress leader Shri Jaipal Reddy Garu. An outstanding parliamentarian, great son of Telangana, he dedicated his entire life towards public service. My deepest condolences to his family &amp; friends,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress, in a tweet, said it was saddened to hear the passing of Jaipal Reddy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are saddened to hear of the passing of former Union Minister Jaipal Reddy. A senior Congress leader, he served as an LS MP 5 times, an RS MP 2 times and as an MLA 4 times. We hope his family and friends find strength in their time of grief,\u201d the Congress tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reddy served as Information and Broadcasting Minister in the IK Gujral government. He served as the Urban Development Minister in Manmohan Singh\u2019s government. Later, he became the minister of petroleum and natural gas but was shifted to ministry of science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union minister and senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy passed away at a private hospital in Hyderabad in the early hours of Sunday. He was 77. According to the reports, Reddy was diagnosed with pneumonia for some time and had been undergoing treatment at Asian Institute of Gastro-enterology. On Saturday night, his condition turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[2426,11670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314275"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314277,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314275\/revisions\/314277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}