NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said the doctors at Breach Candy Hospital detected a gallbladder problem in Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo chief Sharad Pawar and he will be admitted on Wednesday, March 31st to undergo surgery for the same.
The 80-year-old Sharad Pawar is also an oral cancer survivor and had undergone surgery for cancer in 2004. Last evening, Mr. Pawar had felt some pain in his abdomen last evening and had undergone a checkup, following which the doctors found stones in his gall bladder.
Mr. Malik tweeted, “He is on blood-thinning medication which is now being stopped due to this issue. He will be admitted to the hospital on the 31st of March 2021 and endoscopy and surgery will be conducted. Hence, all his programs stand canceled until further notice,” the NCP spokesperson said.
In the afternoon, Mr. Pawar himself tweeted saying Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had called him inquiring after his health.
Meanwhile, there have also been reports of Mr. Pawar meeting Union Minister Amit Shah in Ahmedabad on Saturday, which raised up much speculations as to the nature of the visit. While Amit Shah said, “”Everything need not be made public,” on his alleged meeting with Sharad Pawar, the NCP Supremo Chief has flatly denied that such a meeting took place.