{"id":14565,"date":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/11\/17\/vhp-leader-ashok-singhal-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"vhp-leader-ashok-singhal-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/11\/17\/vhp-leader-ashok-singhal-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP leader Ashok Singhal Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/india\/vhp-leader-ashok-singhal-passes-away-pm-narendra-modi-says-its-a-personal-loss\u201a\u00c4\u00e3_1822881.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 17, 2015 (Zee News): Vishva Hindu Parishad  (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal, who was undergoing treatment in a Gurgaon hospital died on Tuesday. Singhal&#8217;s demise was confirmed by Praveen Togadia. &#8220;Singhal died at 2.24 PM at Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon,&#8221; Togadia said. 89-year-old Singhal was admitted on November 14 to Medanta with complaints of acute breathlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief and said that Ashok Singhalji&#8217;s death was a personal loss. &#8220;He was an institution in himself, whose life was centered around serving the nation,&#8221; the PM tweeted.Expressing his condolences, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy tweeted: &#8220;Deeply sorry to hear of Ashokji demise. He was a Hindutva Titan and the founder of our Hindu Renaissance movement. His last wish-Ram Temple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A bachelor and an RSS pracharak all his life, Singhal, adopted an aggressive style in the &#8220;kar sewak&#8221; campaign in the build up to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December, 1992. A metallurgy engineering graduate from Banaras Hindu University, he motivated the organisation in the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and sought to internationalise it by recruiting supporters and organising branches world wide.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev, union minister Harsh Vardhan, VHP leader Praveen Togadia, Maninderjeet Singh Bitta, chairman, All-India Anti-Terrorist Front, and a few state leaders visited the hospital on Monday to enquire about Singhal&#8217;s health. Togadia had also visited the hospital on Sunday along with Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and union ministers Rajnath Singh and Uma Bharti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 17, 2015 (Zee News): Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal, who was undergoing treatment,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}