Doctors have advised Congress President Sonia Gandhi to move out of Delhi for a short period of time because of her chest infection to avoid extreme pollution in the national capital, party sources stated on Friday.
A senior Congress functionary stated the doctors additionally advised her to move to a warmer location for some time till the air quality gets better in Delhi. He said that two places have been identified—the outskirts of Chennai and Goa—for the purpose.
Sonia Gandhi, along with Rahul Gandhi went to the United States for a couple of days for her routine medical check-up on September 12. Both of them missed the monsoon session of Parliament from September 14 to 23.
Prior to leaving for the United States, Sonia Gandhi had done major organisational changes, reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and her group of office bearers, and furthermore made a special panel to help her in organisational and operational matters.
Sonia Gandhi is leaving Delhi at a time when there are rumblings in the Congress over the fiasco in Bihar assembly election and by-polls in many states with the group of 23 dissenters, who wrote a letter to the party chief in August this year, looking for an organisational overhaul, calling for introspection over electoral setbacks.
She is expected to visit Goa for a sojourn, joined by her children Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Sonia Gandhi is on medication following her discharge from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on August 2, and her doctors are worried about her consistent chest infection.
On Friday at around 10 am, the Air Quality Index in Delhi was 305, which is in the ‘severe’ level.
As per the information, the air quality is probably going to worsen further in the midst of a dip in the minimum temperature. A shift in the wind direction has additionally increased the portion of stubble burning in the city’s pollution slightly.
About 800 fire points were seen in Punjab, Haryana and western Pakistan on Wednesday. Nonetheless, their effect on Delhi-NCR’s air quality won’t be huge, said VK Soni, the head of the IMD’s environmental research centre.
with IANSinputs
