Congress Speaker Sonia Gandhi will fly from Delhi on Friday after doctors advised her to move out of the national capital in light of heavy pollution and poor air quality that has exacerbated her chest infection, people said. aware of the matter.
A senior congressional official said doctors also advised him to move to a warmer place for some time until the air quality improved in Delhi. “Two locations, the outskirts of Chennai and Goa, have been identified for that purpose,” he said.
Sonia Gandhi, 73, will be accompanied by former Congress President Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. He made a brief appearance at the Indira Gandhi Monument on Thursday to pay tribute to the late Prime Minister on his 103rd birthday.
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“Ms Gandhi has had a chronic chest infection for more than a month and is not improving due to the dangerous air quality in Delhi. Heavy pollution has aggravated his asthma and chest condition. Accordingly, the doctors advised him to move out of Delhi until the air quality improved, ”the official said on condition of anonymity.
Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on July 30 after presiding over a meeting of Rajya Sabha members of the party. “He has been under heavy medication since his discharge from hospital in August,” the official added.
On September 12, Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by Rahul Gandhi, traveled to the United States for a few days for her routine medical check-up. The two missed the monsoon session of Parliament on September 14-23.
Before leaving for the United States, Sonia Gandhi had made major organizational changes, reconstituted the Congressional Working Committee (CWC) and her team of officials, and had also formed a special panel to assist her in organizational and operational matters.
Sonia Gandhi is leaving Delhi at a time when there are rumors in Congress about the debacle in the Bihar assembly elections and the multi-state elections with the group of 23 dissidents, who had written a letter to the head of the party in August of this year: seeking organizational reform, calling for introspection on electoral setbacks.
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