Union Road Transport and Highways Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari experienced a sudden fainting spell while delivering a speech at a Lok Sabha poll rally in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal. Sources and visual evidence indicate that Gadkari, addressing the rally in Yavatmal’s Pusad, began to feel dizzy and collapsed during his speech.
Prompt action from his party workers, who swiftly administered water and assisted him off the stage, followed the incident.Yavatmal, set to vote during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 26, along with several other constituencies in Maharashtra, witnessed the unexpected health scare of Gadkari during the election campaign.
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