{"id":7732,"date":"2019-08-07T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:08:11","slug":"indias-%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96%d9%96former-foreign-minister-sushma-swaraj-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7732","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s \u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656\u0656Former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 67-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader passed away after suffering a heart attack in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Swaraj, who served as foreign minister for five years and was a popular minister in Narendra Modi&#8217;s first term as prime minister, but did not contest parliamentary elections earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>She became known for helping Indians stuck abroad by responding to them on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Swaraj, who had suffered from chronic diabetes, had also been admitted to hospitalized in 2016 when she suffered kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>The news of her death prompted an outpouring of grief and condolences both from fellow politicians and from Indians across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A glorious chapter in Indian politics comes to an end,&#8221; Prime Minster Narendra Modi said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>During her decades-long career she had also served as New Delhi&#8217;s chief minister and had served as the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP leader, during her time in the external affairs ministry, granted visas to several individuals seeking medical treatment in India and earned broad admiration for her responsiveness and compassion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 67-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader passed away after suffering a heart attack in the evening. Ms Swaraj, who served as foreign minister for five years and was a popular minister in Narendra Modi&#8217;s first term as prime minister, but did not contest parliamentary elections earlier this year. She became known for helping Indians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}