Ex-TN Guv Wrote to Pranab Mukherjee About Jaya’s Health: Report

Vidyasagar Rao had written a letter to the then President Pranab Mukherjee about her deteriorating health.

Vidyasagar Rao had written a letter to the then President Pranab Mukherjee about Jayalalithaa’s deteriorating health.

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Former Tamil Nadu governor Vidyasagar Rao had in 2016 written a letter to the then President Pranab Mukherjee about late chief minister Jayalalithaa’s health, the Hindustan times said quoting a leaked report.

The letter dated 6 October 2016 was reportedly written after Rao visited the hospital on 1 October 2018.

Rao wrote about Jayalalithaa’s deteriorating health and said that she was sedated when he visited the hospital, contradicting earlier reports that the AIADMK leader was doing well at the time.

“As several unconfirmed reports were passed by unauthorised persons including one Tamizhachi from France over the health of Jaya, I rushed (to) Apollo... on October 1 2016. I saw Jayalalithaa in the ward where she was treated. When I entered the ward, Jaya was under sedation at that time,” Rao wrote in his letter to Mukherjee, as quoted by HT.

AIADMK leader B Valarmathi had said in December 2016 that Jayalaithaa was better, and was performing her official duties. When HT contacted him about the latest revelation, he said the issue is under inquiry.

“The then governor has not said anything officially. It seems to be a leaked report. The Justice Arumughaswamy commission is inquiring into the matter. So I don’t want to make comments,” he told HT.

(With inputs from Hindustan Times)