Sanwarlal Jat collapses at Shah's meet in Raj, critical

BJP's Ajmer MP and former Union minister Sanwarlal Jat was today admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital after he suddenly collapsed during a meeting of MPs and MLAs with party chief Amit Shah.

The MP is critical and on ventilator, SMS Hospital, Jaipur, said in a release.

Jat (62) collapsed during the meeting at the party office here and was rushed to SMS Hospital in a "severely critical" condition with non-recordable pulse, blood pressure and respiration, sources said.

"He was given two DC shocks to restore cardiac rhythm and was shifted to ICU where he was evaluated by a team of doctors consisting of cardiologist, nephrologist, neurologist and intensivist," the medical superintendent of the hospital said.

The cardiac rhythm and hemodynamics are properly maintained but he is unconscious, said the release.

The meeting, which was being attended by party's MPs and MLAs, was ended after he collapsed.

Shah, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Health Minister Kalicharan and other ministers and leaders visited the hosptial.

Jat has served as MoS for Water Resources in the Modi government before the Cabinet reshuffle last year.

The Jat leader was appointed as the Chairman of the state Farmers' Commission in last October.

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