Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 4: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was hospitalised at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the nation’s capital on Wednesday for treatment of a viral respiratory infection, according to hospital officials.
Sonia Gandhi was admitted to our hospital today, according to Dr. Ajay Swaroop, head of the board of management of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Dr. Swaroop added that she was treated by Dr. Arup Basu and his staff while being hospitalised at the Department of Chest Medicine.
“Sonia Gandhi has been admitted for observation and treatment of a viral respiratory infection,” Dr Swaroop added.
Sources claim that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of the Congress in charge of the BJP-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh, was unable to join her brother and party MP Rahul Gandhi on his current ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ due to her mother’s declining health.
Priyanka and Rahul both travelled back to Delhi on Wednesday from UP, where the yatra is now taking place.
On Thursday morning, Rahul returned to the yatra from Mavikala in the UP district of Baghpat.
On Tuesday afternoon, the yatra began its leg through Uttar Pradesh (UP) from the Marghat Hanuman temple in Delhi, where Rahul was seen praying. The yatra will return to Haryana on January 6 after travelling through UP in three days. From Delhi, the yatra travelled to UP via Loni.
Farooq Abdullah, a supporter of the National Conference, and Priyanka Chaturvedi, the head of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav), joined the yatra on Tuesday.
They praised the march and claimed that despite attempts by the Centre to damage Rahul’s reputation, he persisted in his yatra unfazed and undaunted. Rahul is expected to travel with Priyanka for the entire UP part of the yatra.
