{"id":328894,"date":"2020-11-23T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328894"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:15:23","slug":"former-assam-chief-minister-tarun-gogoi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-assam-chief-minister-tarun-gogoi-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi 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-328895 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tarun-gogoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/tarun-gogoi.jpg 490w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/tarun-gogoi-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/tarun-gogoi-444x420.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi passed away on Monday due to post-covid complications, state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe loss of Shri Tarun Gogoi is huge &amp; his absence will mean a vacuum in Assam&#8217;s politics that shall be difficult to fill. I offer my condolences to the bereaved family &amp; pray to God to give his soul eternal peace. Om Shanti,\u201d Biswa Sarna tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA man of grand vision &amp; extraordinary passion, Sri Tarun Gogoi was an intensely people&#8217;s man, focused on progress &amp; enjoyed support of all . I was lucky to have worked under him. He rescued Assam from a period of darkness &amp; led it for 15 yrs ensuring a new phase of development,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his death and said he was a popular leader and a veteran administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShri Tarun Gogoi Ji was a popular leader and a veteran administrator, who had years of political experience in Assam as well as the Centre. Anguished by his passing away. My thoughts are with his family and supporters in this hour of sadness. Om Shanti,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced a three-day state mourning in the honour of Tarun Gogoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI express heartfelt condolences on the demise of former Chief Minister, a tall leader &amp; our most respected Tarun Gogoi da. It&#8217;s the end of an era in Assam&#8217;s public life. He was so vibrant and full of life until a few days back, couldn&#8217;t believe this sad news,\u201d Sonowal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTarun Gogoi was a people&#8217;s leader who had great contribution in Assam&#8217;s political and public sphere. Even though we were in Opposition parties, we shared a wonderful rapport and he was a guiding figure. My deepest condolences to his family and well-wishers,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAlong with thousands at GMCH, offered my last shraddhanjali to the mortal remains of former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi da. I join the people of Assam in mourning the loss of a great leader,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi passed away on Monday due to post-covid complications, state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. \u201cThe loss of Shri Tarun Gogoi is huge &amp; his absence will mean a vacuum in Assam&#8217;s politics that shall be difficult to fill. I offer my condolences to the bereaved family &amp; pray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,13722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328894"}],"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=328894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328896,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328894\/revisions\/328896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}