Chhatisgarh naxal attack: Former minister VC Shukla succumbs to injuries

Former Union minister and Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla who was badly injured in a naxal attack on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh succumbed to his injuries at Gurgaon’s Medanta hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Doctors treating the 84-year-old Shukla, earlier today said the veteran Congress leader was in a very serious condition. [caption id=“attachment_862087” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A file photo of VC Shukla. PTI[/caption] “VC Shukla continues to be serious and still not out of danger,” said a spokesperson of city-based Medanta Hospital, where the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister was undergoing treatment. Though Shukla had shown marginal improvement a week back, his condition again decorated following an infection. The 84-year-old former union minister had sustained three bullet wounds after he was caught in the middle of an ambush by Maoists on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on 25 May. Prior to being moved to Gurgaon, Shukla had underwent an operation at a Jagdalpur hospital for removal of the bullets. Heavily-armed Maoists had ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Bastar district, killing 27 people including PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, Congress leader Mahendra Karma and ex-MLA Uday Mudliyar and injuring 31 others. Though heavily injured, Shukla was not executed on the spot, thanks to his driver who had spoken to the Maoists in Telegu and said that he was a businessman and not a politician. ( More on that here ) With PTI inputs