Health concerns in way of Azad’s campaign plans: ‘Will take a call’

Azad's Democratic Progressive Azad Party, which he launched in September 2022 after leaving the Congress a month earlier, is fighting its Assembly elections.

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Ghulam Nabi Azad (File Photo)

As campaigning picks up pace in J&K, the electioneering plans of senior leader and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad have taken a hit because of a sudden health scare.

Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party, which he launched in September 2022 after leaving the Congress a month earlier, is fighting its Assembly elections.

Sources said Azad, who was in J&K, complained of chest pain Sunday evening and, on the advice of doctors, came to Delhi on Monday morning where he was admitted to AIIMS. The former CM was discharged Tuesday but doctors have advised him to rest, the sources added.

When contacted, Azad told The Indian Express that doctors had advised him to rest and that his campaigning for the Assembly elections now looked unlikely. “I will take a final call tomorrow (Wednesday) but as of now it looks unlikely that I will be able to undertake an arduous campaign,” he said.

The DPAP has so far announced 13 candidates for the Assembly elections.

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