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Former prime minister
I.K. Gujral is dead
Friday November 30, 2012 09:14:33 PM,
IANS
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 Former Prime Minister IK Gujral on
ventilator, very critical
The condition
of former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral is "very critical",
doctors said Monday.
Gujral, 93, was admitted to the Medicity Medanta Hospital here
with a lung infection on Nov 19, and is still on the ventilator.
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New Delhi: Inder Kumar
Gujral, who was India's prime minister for 11 months in 1997-98,
died in a Gurgaon hospital Friday, his family said. He was 93.
Gujral earlier served as the external affairs minister in two
non-Congress governments, serving under prime ministers V.P. Singh
and H.D. Deve Gowda.
He passed away at 3.27 p.m., Naresh Gujral, his son and a Rajya
Sabha member from the Shiromani Akali Dal, told IANS.
Gujral was admitted to Medanta Medicity with a lung infection Nov
19 and was on ventilator. A team of nine senior consultants headed
by Naresh Trehan kept a close watch on him.
On Monday, doctors said medicines were not showing much effect and
his condition worsened. On Tuesday he fell unconscious and never
gained consciousness thereafter.
He is survived by his two sons, Naresh, and Vishal Gujral, who was
till recently a professor in the US, and three grandchildren. His
younger brother is the famed artist and sculptor Satish Gujral.
His wife Sheila predeceased him in July 2011.
Since retiring from active politics in 1999, he wrote his
autobiography "Matters of Discretion" (Hay House) and was an
active figure in the strategic and literary circles.
He retained an abiding interest in Indian foreign policy and spoke
widely about India's place in the world and ties with its
neighbours.
Gujral, known for his impeccable dressing and manners and his
trademark goatee beard, will be remembered as the proponent of the
Gujral Doctrine which advocated that India, being the larger
neighbour, should do twice as more for its smaller neighbours for
the sake of regional peace and prosperity.
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