Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. He was 93. In a rush to get this news out, China's Xinhua News made a mistake of tweeting with the founder of Samata Party, George Fernandes.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was announced dead by officials at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS). "It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Former Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee at 05:05pm on 16.08.2018," read the press release.
"Shri Vajpayee was admitted in AIIMS on 11.06.2018 and was stable in the last 9 weeks under the care of a team of AIIMS doctors. Unfortunately, his condition deteriorated over the last 36 hours and he was put on life support systems. Despite the best of efforts, we have lost him today," the statement added.
The details of his last rites are yet to be known.
Earlier, the AIIMS, in a press note released on late Wednesday, announced that Vajpayee's health had worsened and that he was on a life-support system.
Shortly after attending the President's 'At Home' Reception function on the occasion of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to the hospital to enquire about Vajpayee's health.
Several leaders like his party chief Amit Shah, Union Ministers Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Jitendra Singh, Harsh Vardhan, Suresh Prabhu, Smriti Irani, since then made a beeline to the hospital.
Vajpayee, who led the National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004, was the first-ever member of the Bharatiya Janata Party to become India's Prime Minister.
(With ANI Inputs)
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