{"id":5444,"date":"2012-11-30T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2012-11-30T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:00:48","slug":"former-pm-ik-gujral-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/former-pm-ik-gujral-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM IK Gujral passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister <strong>Inder Kumar Gujral<\/strong> passed away today at 3.31 pm after a prolonged illness. He was 92. Gujral was suffering from lung infection and was admitted to Medicity Medanta Hospital on November 19. He was in ventillator since he was admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>IK Gujral started his political career as a freedom fighter. He was arrested and send to jail for participating in Quit India\u00a0Movement. During the emergency he was Information and Broadcasting minister in the Indira Gandhi ministry. He was also ambassador to Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>He left Congress due to difference of opinion and joined Janathadal by mid 1980. He was elected to Loksabha in 1989 from Punjab&#8217;s Jalandar district. He was Foreign Minister in VP Singh&#8217;s ministry. As a cabinet Minister the greatest challenge he faced during this period was Iraq-Kuwait war. Gujral&#8217;s body will be taken to his home at 5, Janpath soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral passed away today at 3.31 pm after a prolonged illness. He was 92. Gujral was suffering from lung infection and was admitted to Medicity Medanta Hospital on November 19. He was in ventillator since he was admitted to hospital. IK Gujral started his political career as a freedom fighter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":5446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}