Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar on Monday was taken to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital following abdominal pain. The veteran leader will undergo surgery after the gallbladder issue was diagnosed, confirmed party leader Nawab Malik.

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 Gallbladder.

The 80-year-old politician was on blood thinning medication which has now been stopped due to this issue. He will be admitted to the hospital for endoscopy and surgery on March 31. All his scheduled programmes stand cancelled until further notice, Malik said in a tweet.

Trinamool Congress leader and MP Derek O’Brien has extended his wishes for a speedy recovery to the veteran leader. He wrote, Wishing the evergreen ‘Uncle’ @PawarSpeaks , who sits in the seat adjacent to me in the Rajya Sabha, a speedy and full recovery.

Recently, there were reports that Pawar met Union Minister Amit Shah at a top industrialist’s residence in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Shah refused to talk about the purported meeting at a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday. 

However, when enquired about such a meeting with Pawar, he had dismissed it saying  no such meeting took place, adding there is an attempt to create confusion by spreading such rumours.

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Pawar also defended Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in corruption charges, ruling out the possibility of his resignation. A former Mumbai police officer Param Bir Singh alleged that Deshmukh had tasked Sachin Vaze, an accused in the Ambani Bomb scare case, to collect Rs 100 crore from hotels and pubs on a monthly basis.

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