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Indian ecology professor on hunger strike to save Ganges river dies
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/on-fast-unto-death-to-save-ganga-professor-gd-agarwal-dies-at-87/articleshow/66163741.cmsActivist G D Agrawal, who was on an indefinite fast since June 22 demanding to clean Ganga and maintain free flow of the river, died at the AIIMS hospital in Rishikesh on Thursday. The 86-year-old former IIT-Kanpur professor suffered a cardiac arrest in the afternoon.
The veteran Ganga crusader who had taken sanyas in 2011 and was thereafter known as Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand had been on a diet of honey and water since June this year. He had announced on Tuesday that he would give up even water and sacrifice his life for Ganga.
“My fast will end with my death,” he had said at a press conference at Matri Sadan in Haridwar on Tuesday, while blaming the Centre and the state government for failing to clean Ganga and banning mining and hydropower projects on the river. On Wednesday, he was forcibly shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh by the state government.
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Doctors at the hospital said that he died around 2pm on Thursday after a cardiac arrest. Agrawal’s death certificate signed by Dr Venkatesh S Pal, assistant professor, general medicine, lists coronary artery disease-moderate ventricular dysfunction, degenerative vascular heart disease, systemic hypertension, starvation-dehydration, hypokalemia and hypoglycaemia and direct inguinal hernia as reasons for his death.
The veteran Ganga crusader who had taken sanyas in 2011 and was thereafter known as Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand had been on a diet of honey and water since June this year. He had announced on Tuesday that he would give up even water and sacrifice his life for Ganga.
“My fast will end with my death,” he had said at a press conference at Matri Sadan in Haridwar on Tuesday, while blaming the Centre and the state government for failing to clean Ganga and banning mining and hydropower projects on the river. On Wednesday, he was forcibly shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh by the state government.
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Doctors at the hospital said that he died around 2pm on Thursday after a cardiac arrest. Agrawal’s death certificate signed by Dr Venkatesh S Pal, assistant professor, general medicine, lists coronary artery disease-moderate ventricular dysfunction, degenerative vascular heart disease, systemic hypertension, starvation-dehydration, hypokalemia and hypoglycaemia and direct inguinal hernia as reasons for his death.
Damn.
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