{"id":11333,"date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2020-08-03T19:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:06:03","slug":"kamla-rani-varun-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11333","title":{"rendered":"Kamla Rani Varun, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kamla-Rani-Varun.jpg?resize=650%2C400\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"11335\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kamla-Rani-Varun.jpg?resize=650%2C400\" data-link=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?attachment_id=11335\" class=\"wp-image-11335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kamla-Rani-Varun.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kamla-Rani-Varun.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Kamla Rani Varun<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kamla Rani Varun, an Indian politician, died on August 2, days after testing positive for COVID-19. She was 62 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Varun, who was Technical Education minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet of the Indian\u00a0 state of Uttar Pradesh, died during treatment at the SGPGI in Lucknow around 9.30 am.<\/p>\n<p>She tested positive and was receiving treatment, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while delivering his condolence message.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Varun was an MLA from Ghatampur in Kanpur and had been promoted to the State Cabinet in August 2019 when the Adityanath government went in for an expansion following the Lok Sabha victory. She was a former councillor and pracharak of the Seva Bharti, an affiliate of the RSS.<\/p>\n<p>She had success in the Lok Sabha elections in the past, winning from Ghatampur Parliamentary constituency in 1996 and 1998 but lost in 1999 and 2004 to the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party respectively, standing third on each occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Varun, who is survived by her daughter, was cremated at the Bhairo Ghat crematorium here in accordance with COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA guard of honour was given as soon as her body reached Bhairo Ghat crematorium,\u201d District Magistrate Dr. Brahmdeo Ram Tiwari said.<\/p>\n<p>The ambulance carrying her body wrapped in plastic reached the crematorium at 2 p.m. where family members, BJP colleagues and senior police and administration officials waited to pay their respects from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>New agencies<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Kamla Rani Varun, an Indian politician, died on August 2, days after testing positive for COVID-19. She was 62 years old. Ms. Varun, who was Technical Education minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet of the Indian\u00a0 state of Uttar Pradesh, died during treatment at the SGPGI in Lucknow around 9.30 am. She tested positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11335,"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":[1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,8511,6709,6224,6237,8512,6434,8513,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kamla-Rani-Varun.jpg?fit=650%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2438,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2438","url_meta":{"origin":11333,"position":0},"title":"Shaheen Raza, politician","date":"May 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Shaheen Raza Cheema \u2011 a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 to May 2020 \u2011 died of Covid-19 on 20 May 2020. 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