Sharad Pawar to undergo surgery; speculation over Maharashtra govt’s future

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Mumbai, Mar 29, 2021:     National Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar was taken to Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai for a check up after he felt uneasy due to a pain in his abdomen on Sunday evening, NCP leader Nawab Malik tweeted.

 

“Our party president Sharad Pawar saheb was feeling a little uneasy due to a pain in his abdomen last evening and was therefore taken to Breach Candy Hospital for a check-up. Upon diagnosis it came to light that he has a problem in his gall bladder,” Nawab Malik said in a tweet.

Pawar will be hospitalised for a surgery on Wednesday and he has cancelled all public programs till further notice.

He is on Blood Thinning Medication which is now being stopped due to this issue.
He will be admitted in hospital on the 31st of March 2021 and an Endoscopy and Surgery will be conducted.
Hence all his programmes stand cancelled until further notice.@PTI_News @ANI

— Nawab Malik نواب ملک नवाब मलिक (@nawabmalikncp) March 29, 2021

 

“He is on blood thinning medication which is now being stopped due to this issue. He will be admitted in hospital on the 31st of March 2021 and an Endoscopy and Surgery will be conducted. Hence all his programmes stand cancelled until further notice,” Malik added.

The announcement comes day after speculation of meeting between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Sharad Pawar in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. While the Union Home Minister said that “everything may not be made public”, the NCP on the other hand debunked the speculation and said that no such meeting took place.

Pawar was also scheduled to campaign for the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for the assembly polls. He was scheduled to visit the poll-bound state on April 1 and camp in the state for three days where he was to hold various rallies, press conferences and meet Mamata Banerjee and TMC workers.

Media reported that Shah met Pawar and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Union Minister Praful Patel in Ahmedabad, supposedly at industrialist Gautam Adani’s place.

Shah’s cryptic comment left everyone guessing even as reports about the meeting had triggered speculations amid the political crisis in Maharashtra in wake of former former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh’s serious charges against state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, of the NCP.

The Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government includes the NCP and the Congress.

Reports speculate that the top BJP and NCP leaders have been discussing the possible coalition in the state.

However, Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik rubbished talk of a meeting between his party chief Sharad Pawar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

He further alleged that such talk was the BJP’s way of creating ’confusion’.

’It is a completely false information deliberately pushed by some people to create confusion. It is something that BJP wants to create some confusion. Such a meeting has not taken place. There is no reason that Pawar should meet Shah,’ Malik said.