{"id":11124,"date":"2020-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11124","title":{"rendered":"V. Balan, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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V. Balan — former Puducherry nominated legislator and general secretary of All India N R Congress — died on July 27, 2020, days after he tested for COVID-19, at a private hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Director of Health and Family Welfare S. Mohan Kumar, said the 68-year-old leader was admitted to the hospital last week with symptoms of novel coronavirus. He was undergoing treatment at the hospital after he tested positive. Mr. Balan, who had co-morbid conditions, was put on a ventilator two day ago, after his condition worsened, but died on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Mr. Balan was nominated to the Legislative Assembly during the fag-end of the previous N. R Congress government. After serving Congress from his student days, he quit his parent party when former Chief Minister N. Rangasamy floated the AINRC in 2011. He was considered second in-command of the party and the political conscience-keeper of Mr. Rangasamy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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V. Balan — former Puducherry nominated legislator and general secretary of All India N R Congress — died on July 27, 2020, days after he tested for COVID-19, at a private hospital. Director of Health and Family Welfare S. Mohan Kumar, said the 68-year-old leader was admitted to the hospital last week with symptoms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47,3,7019],"tags":[8458,1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,6709,6224,6237,6434,6738,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/V_Balan.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10462,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10462","url_meta":{"origin":11124,"position":0},"title":"Tapan Ghosh, politician","date":"July 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Tapan Ghosh, the former RSS leader who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at a hospital on July 12, 2020. 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