Gopinath Pandurang Munde
- Spouse: Pradnya Munde (m. 1978)
- Office: Minister of Rural Development of India since 2014
- Children: Pankaja Munde, Pritam Munde, Yashashri Munde
- Parents: Limbabai Mundeon, Pandurang Munde
Senior BJP leader and union minister for rural development Gopinath Munde died this morning reportedly of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi. He was 64.
At about 6.20 this morning, Mr Munde was on his way to the Delhi airport when an Indica car crashed into the minister's SX4 car at the the Prithviraj Road and Aurobindo Chowk cross-section in the heart of the capital, the police said.
Doctors quoted the minister's personal staff as saying that the Indica crashed into the car on the side that the minister was seated in the rear seat. Mr Munde, who seemed to have suffered only minor injuries, was in shock, his staff members said. He had asked for water, they said.
Mr Munde's driver and personal assistant were in the front and were unhurt. They rushed him to the trauma centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
"There was no spontaneous breathing and no cardiac activity when he was brought to the hospital," a doctor said.
The doctors tried to revive the minister, but could not and pronounced him dead at 7.20 am.
Doctors have said Mr Munde was diabetic and suffered from hypertension.
After the post mortem, Mr Munde's body was taken to the BJP office at 11 Ashoka Road, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others will pay their respects.
It will then be flown to Mumbai where people will pay their respects to the late leader this evening. Tomorrow morning, his body will be flown to Latur and then taken to Parli in Beed district, Mr Munde's hometown, where the last rites will be performed.
Mr Munde was on his way to the airport this morning to go to Beed, which was his Lok Sabha constituency, for a victory rally. He was sworn in as a Cabinet minister last week.
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