Gujarat Agriculture Minister suffers stroke, hospitalised

Ahmedabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Gujarat's Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Raghavji Patel was admitted to the hospital following a brain hemorrhage stroke.

The doctors have said that the 65-year-old minister's condition is improving.

Patel suffered the brain stroke in Jamnagar while attending a program.

Dr. Sanjay Tilala, a neurosurgeon at Rajkot's Synergy Hospital said that Patel received primary treatment at a local hospital in Jamnagar before being referred to their facility.

Patel joined politics in 2012 and won his maiden assembly seat in the same year from Jamnagar-Gramya seat on Congress ticket. However, Patel joined BJP in 2017.

--IANS

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