November 20, 2020 11:10:32 am
The Acting President of Congress, Sonai Gandhi, with her son Rahul Gandhi. (File / PTI)
Congress Speaker Sonia Gandhi was advised to move out of Delhi for a few days to avoid heavy contamination in the national capital due to her chronic chest infection, party sources said on Friday. Gandhi can switch to Goa or Chennai for a few days, they added.
Sources said she was likely to leave on Friday afternoon and would be accompanied by Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Sonia Gandhi has been under heavy medication after being discharged from the hospital in August, and doctors are concerned about her constant chest infection, which has not been due to contamination from Delhi, sources said.
Air pollution in Delhi has aggravated his asthma and chest condition, and doctors have advised him to briefly stay away from here, they said.
She goes at a time when a section of party leaders is making demands for introspection about Bihar’s electoral defeat, including some of those who had written her a letter seeking organizational reform.
Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on the evening of July 30. Later, on September 12, she went abroad for a few days for her routine medical check-up, and Rahul Gandhi had accompanied her during the visit.
The two leaders had also missed the Monsoon Parliament session, which was held under special conditions during the September 14-23 pandemic.
The president of Congress had moved to Goa for some time in January last year, where her cycling photos had gone viral on social media.
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