Two days after being denied a ticket by the BJP for MP Assembly polls, two-time former cabinet minister Umashankar Gupta (71) suffered a heart attack on Monday afternoon.
According to sources, Mr. Gupta was rushed to a private health facility, Anant Heart Hospital at Jawahar Chowk in Bhopal at around 3 pm where doctors conducted an angiography and consequently implanted a stent in his body.
Currently, he is in the hospital’s ICU and his condition is said to be stable.
Mr. Gupta was taking part in a kanya-bhoj programme organized on the occasion of Navami by BJP workers in Ward number 21, when he felt pain in his chest at around 2.30 pm, the sources said.
Yesterday, Gupta’s supporters had staged a protest in front of MP BJP president V D Sharma after Gupta was denied a ticket from the Bhopal South-West Assembly segment in the party’s fifth list released on Saturday. The agitated supporters objected to the ticket being given to former Bhopal district BJP President Bhagwandas Sabnani.
About 17 BJP Mandal-level office bearers resigned in protest against their leader being dropped from the list.
Mr. Gupta has been revenue minister of the state from 2013 to 2018 and before that he was the MP home minister too. He has been a BJP MLA since 2003 but lost the assembly polls in 2018.