Thackeray's surgery successful, to be discharged in 2 days

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray underwent successful surgery by a team of orthopaedic surgeons at the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital to cure a neck problem, in Mumbai on Friday morning, Shiv Sena Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut said. Official sources said that Thackeray will be discharged from the hospital in a day or two.

"The CM has been operated upon for the problem and the procedure has been successful... Further details shall be provided by the medical team attending to him," said Raut briefly to the media.

In an abrupt move, Thackeray was admitted to the hospital late on Wednesday, a couple of days after he appeared in a public online event wearing a neck brace.

However, the CM allayed apprehensions by confirming that for the past couple of years during the Covid pandemic, he was suffering from neck issues but ignored it, with the aggravation leading to doctors advising a 'proper treatment' for it.

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