Senior Congress Leader and former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla died today in a Gurgaon hospital after battling injuries sustained in a deadly naxal attack on a convoy of party leaders a fortnight ago in Chhattisgarh. Shukla (84) died at 14:38 hours, said Yatin Mehta, Chairman of Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology in the Medanta Medicity Hospital in nearby Gurgaon. He said that Shukla developed multi-organ failure. Severe bullet injury and old age were major risk factors in his case, Mehta said. Shukla is survived by wife and three daughters.
Shukla was airlifted from Raipur and admitted to the hospital on 26th May, a day after the attack which eliminated almost the entire top leadership of Chhattisgarh unit of Congress. He had sustained severe bullet injuries and was brought in a critical condition. Shukla had shown marginal improvement a week ago but his condition deteriorated again following an infection. Prior to his shift to Gurgaon, Shukla had undergone an operation at a Jagdalpur hospital for removal of the bullets. Maoists had ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday, killing 27 people including PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma and ex-MLA Uday Mudaliyar and injuring Shukla and 36 others.
Shukla was airlifted from Raipur and admitted to the hospital on 26th May, a day after the attack which eliminated almost the entire top leadership of Chhattisgarh unit of Congress. He had sustained severe bullet injuries and was brought in a critical condition. Shukla had shown marginal improvement a week ago but his condition deteriorated again following an infection. Prior to his shift to Gurgaon, Shukla had undergone an operation at a Jagdalpur hospital for removal of the bullets. Maoists had ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday, killing 27 people including PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma and ex-MLA Uday Mudaliyar and injuring Shukla and 36 others.
