{"id":348531,"date":"2024-04-24T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=348531"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:52:08","slug":"maharashtra-nitin-gadkari-faints-while-addressing-yavatmal-poll-rally-fine-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-nitin-gadkari-faints-while-addressing-yavatmal-poll-rally-fine-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Nitin Gadkari faints while addressing Yavatmal poll rally; fine now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Maharashtra-Nitin-Gadkari-faints-while-addressing-Yavatmal-poll-rally-fine-now-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348532\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday fainted while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election rally in Pusad town of Yavatmal district in the blistering summer heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the incident went viral on social media, showing Nitin Gadkari stumbling and almost falling but was helped by his aides around the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They helped carry him away and managed to revive him, after which he returned to the stage after a while, said local eyewitnesses. Pusad recorded 39 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, Nitin Gadkari also posted on X saying he was &#8220;absolutely healthy&#8221; and was leaving to address another election rally at the next venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I felt uncomfortable owing to the heat during the rally in Pusad, Maharashtra. But now I am completely healthy and leaving for Varud to attend the next meeting. Thank you for your love and good wishes, &#8221; the Union Minister said in a reassuring tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitin Gadkari, 66, was campaigning for the ruling MahaYuti-Shiv Sena candidate Rajashri Hemant Patil who is contesting the Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha constituency, going to polls on April 26 (Friday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitin Gadkari is also a candidate from the Nagpur LS constituency where he is aiming for a hat-trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday fainted while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election rally in Pusad town of Yavatmal district in the blistering summer heat. A video of the incident went viral on social media, showing Nitin Gadkari stumbling and almost falling but was helped by his aides around the stage. They helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":348532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[18141,15744,18143,18142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348531"}],"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=348531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348534,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348531\/revisions\/348534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/348532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}