Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi passes away

Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi passed away on Friday at the age of 74. Ajit Jogi was admitted to a hospital in Raipur on May 9 after he suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest. A bureaucrat-turned politician, Jogi had served as the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh (2000-03) in then Congress government after the state was carved out of Madhya Pradesh.