Union minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari fainted on stage while addressing an election rally in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal on Wednesday. He was immediately provided with health assistance.
While addressing a mass gathering at an election rally in Yavatmal’s Pusad, Gadkari felt unconscious and collapsed on stage.
Party members promptly came for his rescue. They rushed him to treatment.
However, the minister took to platform X to inform his well-wishers that he felt uncomfortable owing to the heat, which led to the incident. He is feeling better now and is heading towards the next election rally slated to take place in Varud.
“I felt uncomfortable due to the heat during the rally in Pusad, Maharashtra. But now I am completely healthy and am leaving for Varud to attend the next meeting. Thank you for your love and good wishes,” Nitin Gadkari wrote on X.
Gadkari was campaigning for Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena leader Rajashree Patil, who is the ruling Mahayuti alliance’s nominee from the Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha seat.
Gadkari contested Lok Sabha polls from Nagpur which went to polls in the first phase,
Yavatmal, Buldhana, Akola, Amravati, Wardha, Hingoli, Nanded and Parbhani parliamentary constituencies in Maharashtra, are scheduled to go to polls in the second phase of elections on April 26.
