JOIN USCongress president Sonia Gandhi, who fell ill during a roadshow in Varanasi on Tuesday, is stable and recovering at a city hospital here.
“She is stable and recovering under medical supervision,” party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here on Wednesday.
Sonia was admitted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital on Tuesday night as she was running a high fever and was dehydrated due to exhaustion from the roadshow. She was shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, which she is known to frequent, on Wednesday afternoon.
A health bulletin issued by the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said that Sonia was dehydrated but stable. She has been put under the care of a team of doctors from the Department of Pulmonology.
The 69-year-old leader was brought to Delhi by a chartered flight on Tuesday night with doctors from the Banaras Hindu University in attendance. She was administered intravenous fluids at the VIP lounge of the Varanasi airport before doctors gave clearance to shift her to Delhi.
Sonia, who has been under the weather for a while, went ahead with the strenuous roadshow in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Parliamentary constituency, but had to call it off at the fag end.
“She was very keen to go, had a bit of strain I guess,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra told the media at the airport, where she received her mother and brother Rahul Gandhi. “I regret that I could not complete the tour due to my illness. I was deprived of the fortune to have a ‘darshan’ of Kashi Vishwanath in the holy month of Savan,” Sonia had said in a statement in Varanasi, promising to return soon.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was scheduled to meet Sonia at the hospital.