Lucknow: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Arvind Giri passed away due to a heart attack here on Tuesday morning.
As per reports, Giri died while he was travelling to Lucknow in his car due to a cardiac arrest. He was immediately taken to a hospital, however, he couldn't survive.
Expressing grief over his death, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, "The demise of BJP MLA from Gola assembly constituency of Lakhimpur Kheri district Arvind Giri ji is unfortunate. My condolences are with the bereaved families. May Lord Shri Ram grant the departed soul a place at his feet and strength to the bereaved family members to bear this unfathomable loss. Om Shanti."
In 2006, Giri won his first assembly elections as an SP candidate. In the last UP Assembly elections, Giri defeated his close contestant Vinay Tiwari from Samajwadi Party with a margin of 55,017 votes.
Recently, another BJP leader Sonali Phogat passed away in Goa at the age of 42.
Reportedly, she had gone to Goa with some of her employees. She was immediately rushed to a hospital after she felt uneasy.
Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar expressed grief and said, "Deeply saddened to learn about the death of Sonali Phogat."
As a BJP candidate, Phogat contested the 2019 Haryana election from Adampur. However, she lost to Kuldeep Bishnoi, who was the Congress candidate.
Meanwhile, the villagers of Bhuthan Kalan, the native village of Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat, are not accepting her sudden demise as a normal event. According to villagers, Phogat did not die of a heart attack but she was murdered.
The villagers further demanded the state government conduct a CBI inquiry into the matter so that the exact reason for her death could be ascertained.
Bhuthan Kalan in the Fatehabad district of Haryana is the ancestral village of Sonali Phogat. She was born into a farmer's family and got her early education here. After completing school here, she pursued her degree from MDU University.
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