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Rahul visits ailing Jaswant Singh at hospital
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IBNS): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited former Union Minister Jaswant Singh after he was admitted in a hospital with critical head injury.
He also met with Singh's family and wished his speedy recovery.
The former Defence Minister was admitted to the Army (Research & Referral) Hospital in New Delhi in a highly critical condition around 1 PM on Friday with injury to his head.
The family members had brought him to the hospital after finding him lying on the floor of the house in an unconscious state, a government statement said.
Examination at the hospital showed him to be in coma, with signs of ‘raised intracranial tension and a haematoma scalp’.
Urgent CT scan of the head showed ‘an acute subdural haematoma with mass effect, a midline shift and contusion of the brain substance’. A lifesaving ‘decompressive hemicraniectomy’ was done.
Singh's condition is very critical. He is on life support systems and under constant monitoring by a team of neurosurgeons and critical care providers.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the family of Singh.
The Prime Minister prayed for Singh's speedy recovery.
BJP patriarch L K Advani also visited him in the hospital, said reports.
Singh, the former Defence Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet, was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election after he decided to contest polls from Barmer in Rajasthan as an independent candidate when the party had decided to field someone else.
Singh had contested from West Bengal’s Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in 2009 and won with the support of Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM).
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