{"id":295121,"date":"2025-05-01T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/former-union-minister-girija-vyas-dies-at-79\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:42:12","slug":"former-union-minister-girija-vyas-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/former-union-minister-girija-vyas-dies-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Union minister Girija Vyas dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120799242,imgsize-661302.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former Union minister Girija Vyas dies at 79\" title=\"Former Union minister Girija Vyas dies at 79\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\">Veteran <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/congress-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress leader<\/a> and <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/former-union-minister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Union minister<\/a> Girija Vyas, who suffered <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/burn-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burn injuries<\/a> on March 31 while performing aarti at her home here, has died at a hospital in Ahmedabad, her family said on Thursday. She was 79. Vyas&#8217;s brother Gopal Sharma said that she succumbed to burn injuries at the Ahmedabad hospital on Thursday evening. <!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:108--> The Congress leader was performing aarti during which her dupatta caught fire from a burning lamp and suffered critical burn injuries. She was rushed to a private hospital in Udaipur where she was referred to Ahmedabad. <\/p>\n<p> Her funeral will be conducted in Udaipur on Friday, Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p> Vyas was a prominent Congress leader who served as a minister in both the state and central governments. She was also the PCC chief. <\/p>\n<p>She also served as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:100--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/former-union-minister-girija-vyas-dies-at-79\/articleshow\/120799242.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Girija Vyas, who suffered burn injuries on March 31 while performing aarti at her home here, has died at a hospital in Ahmedabad, her family said on Thursday. She was 79. Vyas&#8217;s brother Gopal Sharma said that she succumbed to burn injuries at the Ahmedabad hospital on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120799242,imgsize-661302.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[229501,58463,20735,16,59022,229502,229500,2124,6953,107381],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295123,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295121\/revisions\/295123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}