Veteran BJP leader LK Advani, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh, UP Governor Anandiben Patel and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi visited AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Science) to enquire former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's health condition.
Among other prominent leaders Union Ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Thaawarchand Gehlot, BJP national general-secretary Arun Singh and party MP Maneka Gandhi also visited the hospital on Monday.
Jaitley has been put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which is used for patients whose lungs and heart are incapable of operating on their own, hospital sources said.
The AIIMS administration has not released a single medical bulletin regarding his health condition since August 10.
Till now many leaders from all the parties including Himachal Pradesh Governor Kalraj Mishra, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary Dr Krishna Gopal and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BSP president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, BJP's Satish Upadhyay, Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik, Congress' Abhishek Singhvi and Jyotiraditya Scindia and Air Force chief Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa had visited the hospital to know about his well being.
The Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, P K Mishra, and Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha also visited the hospital in the evening.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said on Friday, "Doctors at AIIMS are doing the best they can."
President Ram Nath Kovind, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had visited AIIMS on Friday to check on the leader's health.
In May this year, Jaitley was admitted to AIIMS for treatment. Jaitley, a lawyer by profession, had been an important part in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet in the BJP Government's first term. He held the finance and defence portfolios, and often acted as the chief troubleshooter of the Government.
Jaitley did not contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections presumably because of his poor health.
He had undergone a renal transplant on May 14 last year at AIIMS with Railways Minister Piyush Goyal filling in for him in the Finance Ministry at that time.
Jaitley, who had stopped attending office since early April last year, was back in the Finance Ministry on August 23, 2018.
In September 2014, he underwent bariatric surgery to correct the weight he had gained because of a long-standing diabetic condition.