Jogi suffers cardiac arrest, condition deteriorates further

Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's health deteriorated on late Wednesday night after he suffered a major cardiac arrest.

Dr Sunil Khemka, Director of the private hospital where Jogi is admitted, said in a     medical bulletin that the doctors somehow       managed to bring back the heartbeat with cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Jogi was admitted to the Shree Narayana Hospital on May 9 after he suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest. According to doctors, a sweet tamarind seed got stuck in Jogi's   windpipe.

With Jogi's              neurological activities "almost nil" and he remaining in coma, doctors then started "audio therapy" by making him listen to his favourite songs on earphones.

A bureaucrat-turned politician, Jogi was the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh from November 2000 to November 2003,       heading a Congress   government, after the state was carved out of Madhya Pradesh.

Jogi, now an MLA from Marwahi, parted ways with the Congress in 2016 and floated his Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J).