Mumbai: NCP chief Sharad Pawar admitted to hospital after feeling uneasy

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar was on Monday admitted to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital due to ill health, a party functionary said.
The 81-year-old Rajya Sabha member will remain in the hospital for next couple of days, NCP's general secretary Shivajirao Garje said in a statement.
He well later attend a party meeting scheduled to begin on November 3, the statement further read.
After the veteran politician complained of uneasiness, he was admitted to the hospital on the advice of his physician, he said.
"He will remain in the hospital for three days and is expected to be discharged on November 2. He will attend the party's two-day meeting scheduled to begin on November 3," Garje said.
The functionary appealed to party leaders and workers not to gather at the hospital.
Pawar had undergone a gall bladder surgery at the private hospital in April last year.
He had also undergone a medical procedure for the removal of a mouth ulcer.
(With inputs from PTI)