New Delhi: Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi (74) has suffered a cardiac arrest and according to a PTI report, he has been admitted to a private hospital in Raipur after his health worsened in the afternoon. His son Amit Jogi said that his health suddenly worsened while he was having breakfast, following which he was admitted to hospital this afternoon.

According to India Today, the hospital said that the politician is kept on ventilator support.

The former CM''s wife Renu Jogi, an MLA, is with him in the hospital.

A bureaucrat-turned politician, Ajit Jogi had served as the first CM of Chhattisgarh from November 2000 to November 2003 in then Congress government, after the state came into existence.

Jogi worked briefly as a lecturer before getting selected for Indian Administrative Services (IAS). In 2007 Jogi and his son were also arrested for the murder of NCP treasurer Ram Avtar Jaggi, Ramavtar Jaggi. But the case was dropped in 2008. Jogi parted ways with the Congress in 2016 after he and his son got embroiled in a controversy over a by-election. Later, he quit the Congress and formed Janata Congress Chhattisgarh. In 2018, he announced that he will contest the election from Rajnandgaon.