Chhattisgarh’s first CM Ajit Jogi dies aged 74

Chhattisgarh’s first chief minister Ajit Jogi succumbed to cardiac arrest in a hospital in Raipur yesterday, doctors said. He was 74. Jogi suffered a cardiac arrest around 1.30pm and doctors battled for over two hours to revive him but were unsuccessful. He died around 3.30pm, said a medical bulletin from the Shree Narayana Hospital. Jogi, who was admitted to the hospital on May 9 after a heart attack, had slipped into a coma the next day. Hospital director, Dr Sunil Khemka, in a medical bulletin on May 10, said the oxygen had not been reaching the brain for some time, causing brain damage. The condition is called hypoxia. Jogi’s neurological activities were almost nil, though his heartbeat was normal and blood pressure controlled by drugs.