{"id":320265,"date":"2020-02-21T05:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320265"},"modified":"2020-02-21T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T07:45:48","slug":"former-karnataka-minister-c-channigappa-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-karnataka-minister-c-channigappa-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Karnataka Minister C Channigappa passes away"},"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-320266 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/channigappa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/channigappa.jpg 562w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/channigappa-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/channigappa-425x420.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/>Former Karnataka Minister and JD(S) leader C Channigappa passed away on Friday at a hospital in Bengaluru. He was 76.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Channigappa was a Forest Minister of Karnataka in BJP-JDS coalition government and served as MLA for three times from Koratagere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Siddaramaiah took to Twitter to pay condolences and said that Channigappa was his friend for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa also condoled his death and said, \u201cMay the Lord grant peace to his soul.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Karnataka Minister and JD(S) leader C Channigappa passed away on Friday at a hospital in Bengaluru. He was 76. Channigappa was a Forest Minister of Karnataka in BJP-JDS coalition government and served as MLA for three times from Koratagere. Congress leader Siddaramaiah took to Twitter to pay condolences and said that Channigappa was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[12645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320265"}],"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=320265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320267,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320265\/revisions\/320267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}