{"id":331714,"date":"2021-04-22T06:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331714"},"modified":"2021-04-22T06:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:28:55","slug":"sitaram-yechurys-son-ashish-passed-away-due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sitaram-yechurys-son-ashish-passed-away-due-to-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitaram Yechury\u2019s son Ashish passed away due to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331715\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ashish-yechuri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/ashish-yechuri.jpg 525w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/ashish-yechuri-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/ashish-yechuri-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/ashish-yechuri-423x420.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CPI(M) National General Secretary Sitaram Yechury\u2019s elder son, Ashish Yechury, passed away due to COVID-19. He confirmed his son\u2019s demise with a tweet on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son, Ashish Yechury to COVID-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him &#8211; doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers, and innumerable others who stood by us,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ashish Yechuri, 35 was working as a senior copy editor at NewsLaundry, in Delhi. According to reports, Ashish had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been receiving treatment at the Medanta hospital in Gurugram.<\/p>\n<p>He was hospitalised at the Holy Family hospital initially two weeks ago and was later shifted to the Medanta hospital in Gurugram. Several prominent leaders and journalists expressed their condolences to the veteran communist leader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CPI(M) National General Secretary Sitaram Yechury\u2019s elder son, Ashish Yechury, passed away due to COVID-19. He confirmed his son\u2019s demise with a tweet on Thursday morning. \u201cIt is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son, Ashish Yechury to COVID-19 this morning. I want to thank all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[14130,14018,14129,14131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331714"}],"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=331714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331716,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331714\/revisions\/331716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}