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Article: Gloucester's new Asian mayor suffers heart attack
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- May 31, 2007
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Gloucester/Jalandhar, May 31 -- Hardly four days after taking over as the 527th mayor - and the first Asian to do so - of Gloucester city in England, Jalandhar-born Harjit Gill is in hospital after suffering a heart attack.
The 52-year-old popular Labour councillor from Barton and Tredworth in Gloucester has been admitted to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and was being kept under observation.
"I am feeling much better now. I never expected this to happen. It was shocking for me. I am waiting for the medics to discharge after all the check-ups. I am yearning to be back and do justice to my new assignment and people of Gloucestershire," Gill told IANS from his hospital bed.
He was ...