{"id":331843,"date":"2021-05-06T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331843"},"modified":"2021-06-05T04:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T09:39:32","slug":"rld-chief-chaudhary-ajit-singh-dies-during-covid-19-treatment-in-gurugram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rld-chief-chaudhary-ajit-singh-dies-during-covid-19-treatment-in-gurugram\/","title":{"rendered":"RLD chief Chaudhary Ajit Singh dies during COVID-19 treatment in Gurugram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331844\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/778552-ajit-singh-1-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Chaudhary Ajit Singh died on Thursday while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a Gurugram hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Ajit Singh, 82, was a popular farmers&#8217; leader and the son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh.<\/p>\n<p>His son Jayant Chaudhary confirmed on Twitter that Singh passed away a few weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on 20 April.<\/p>\n<p>He twitted- \u201cHe battled his condition till the very end and breathed his last today morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajit Singh, was a seven-time MP and Union Minister in the governments of VP Singh, PV Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed an immense following in politically vital Uttar Pradesh, especially its western parts dominated by Jats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Chaudhary Ajit Singh died on Thursday while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a Gurugram hospital. Ajit Singh, 82, was a popular farmers&#8217; leader and the son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. His son Jayant Chaudhary confirmed on Twitter that Singh passed away a few weeks after being diagnosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[14170,14018,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331843"}],"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=331843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331845,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331843\/revisions\/331845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}