{"id":339157,"date":"2022-08-23T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339157"},"modified":"2022-08-23T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:04:28","slug":"bjp-leader-sonali-phogat-dies-of-heart-attack-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-leader-sonali-phogat-dies-of-heart-attack-in-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader Sonali Phogat dies of heart attack in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP leader from Haryana and actor Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack in Goa, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Phogat, a former Tik Tok star who had joined the BJP in 2019, was on a visit to Goa along with some of her staff members.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, she was brought to St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa district after she complained of uneasiness, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Superintendent of Police (Mapusa) Jivba Dalvi said she was brought dead to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Prime facie, the cause of death is established as heart attack but further medical examination is on, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The postmortem would be conducted at the state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has passed away. I have been given information that she was in Goa,&#8221; Haryana BJP chief O P Dhankar told to media.<\/p>\n<p>BJP Hisar district president Capt Bhupender said, &#8220;Sonali ji was in Goa. I spoke to her assistant and he said that she died of a heart attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Phogat had unsuccessfully contested the last Assembly election from Adampur Assembly constituency against Kuldeep Bishnoi.\u00a0Bishnoi, who was then in Congress, recently joined the BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP leader from Haryana and actor Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack in Goa, police said on Tuesday. Phogat, a former Tik Tok star who had joined the BJP in 2019, was on a visit to Goa along with some of her staff members. On Monday night, she was brought to St Anthony Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339157"}],"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=339157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339159,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339157\/revisions\/339159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}