Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla cancels press meet on Sushma Swaraj's sudden demise

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla cancels press meet on Sushma Swaraj's sudden demise
Written By: ZeeBiz WebTeam
Edited By: Asit Manohar
Updated: Wed, Aug 07, 2019
08:46 am
New Delhi, ZeeBiz WebDesk
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla cancelled his press meet following the demise of former Union Minister and fire brand BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. Birla was supposed to hold a press meet in New Delhi today. Swaraj passed away due to a cardiac arrest on Tuesday night. She was admitted to All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) following a deterioration in her health.

According to sources at AIIMS, the 67-year-old was feeling restless at 9 pm and reached the hospital at around 9:30 pm in an ambulance. A team of doctors tried to revive her for 70 to 80 minutes but failed in their attempt. Swaraj was declared dead at 10:50 pm. In her last tweet, the former external affairs minister thanked PM Modi for revoking article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.

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Swaraj was appointed the foreign minister in the first term of Modi government in 2014. She opted out of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections citing health reasons. 

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