Fadnavis to leave for Delhi to visit ex PM

The chief minister is in Nagpur to participate in an event organised to pay homage to freedom fighters who were martyred in police firing at Chimur when they took out a morcha against the British after Mahatma Gandhiji's Quit India call.

Maharashtra Chief Minister

Devendra Fadnavis will leave for New Delhi later in the day

today to enquire about the health of former Prime Minister

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is on life support at the AIIMS,

official sources said here.

Fadnavis will fly to New Delhi from Nagpur, where he

has gone to attend a public event, sources in the Chief

Minister's Office (CMO) said.

He will visit the All India Institute of Medical

Sciences (AIIMS) in the national capital, where Vajpayee has

been admitted, and enquire about his health, they said.

The chief minister is in Nagpur to participate in an

event organised to pay homage to freedom fighters who were

martyred in police firing at Chimur when they took out a

morcha against the British after Mahatma Gandhiji's Quit India

call.

Vajpayee was admitted at the premier medical college

and hospital on June 11 with a kidney tract infection, urinary

tract infection, low urine output and chest congestion.

The 93-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader, a

diabetic, has one functional kidney. He had suffered a stroke

in 2009 that weakened his cognitive abilities. Subsequently,

he developed dementia.

The BJP veteran's condition remains critical and he

continues to be on advanced life-support system, the AIIMS

said in a statement today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the AIIMS last

evening to enquire about Vajpayee's condition.

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