{"id":3648,"date":"2018-08-08T06:08:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:08:05","slug":"president-sirisena-condoles-death-of-karunanidhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-sirisena-condoles-death-of-karunanidhi\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena condoles death of Karunanidhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today mourned the death of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI am deeply saddened by the death of former Chief Minister and senior political leader Karunanidhi,\u201d he said in a tweet, extending his condolences to the bereaved family and party cadres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa also expressed his condolences in a tweet, saying he was \u201cdeeply saddened by the demise of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Kalaignar Karunanidhi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cHis contributions to Tamil literature, cinema, &amp; politics are unparalleled. I join the millions of people who are mourning. My deepest condolences to the family &amp; people of Tamil Nadu,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Karunanidhi, five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who was an outspoken champion of the cause of the Sri Lankan Tamils for decades, died at a hospital in Chennai this evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 94-year-old leader was admitted to Kauvery Hospital on July 28 after he contracted urinary tract infection and developed a high fever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He died at 6.10 pm. \u201cDespite the best possible efforts by our team of doctors and nurses to resuscitate him, he failed to respond,\u201d the hospital said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his condolence for the death of Mr Karunanidhi, calling him a deep-rooted mass leader, prolific thinker, accomplished writer and a stalwart devoted to the welfare of the poor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today mourned the death of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}