Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu was forcibly moved into the Intensive Care Unit of a Hyderabad hospital, on the seventh day of his hunger strike on Thursday, after doctors said his condition had worsened.
Doctors feared that Naidu might slip into coma if he was not injected with intravenous (IV) fluids within 24 hours.
His condition was stable after he was injected with IV fluids. However, doctors said that it will take at least 24 hours to bring him out of the critical state.
Naidu announced an indefinite hunger strike to protest against what he describes as the government's indifference to farmers in Andhra Pradesh. Naidu has demanded that they be given greater compensation than what the government has sanctioned after a whopping monsoon destroyed 50 lakh acres of crops. Thirty farmers have committed suicide this year. But that's according to the government; in reality, the number is much higher.
That criticism is leveled most loudly and clearly against him now by Jagan Mohan Reddy, the son of Congress leader YSR Reddy, who died last year in a helicopter crash when he was chief minister. Jagan stormed out of the Congress a few weeks ago, the climax of his rebellion against his party ever since it decided that he would not replace YSR as the head of the government.
Though he has been fasting for the last six days, his BP and sugar levels have not come down," he said, uncharitably.
Doctors feared that Naidu might slip into coma if he was not injected with intravenous (IV) fluids within 24 hours.
His condition was stable after he was injected with IV fluids. However, doctors said that it will take at least 24 hours to bring him out of the critical state.
Naidu announced an indefinite hunger strike to protest against what he describes as the government's indifference to farmers in Andhra Pradesh. Naidu has demanded that they be given greater compensation than what the government has sanctioned after a whopping monsoon destroyed 50 lakh acres of crops. Thirty farmers have committed suicide this year. But that's according to the government; in reality, the number is much higher.
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That criticism is leveled most loudly and clearly against him now by Jagan Mohan Reddy, the son of Congress leader YSR Reddy, who died last year in a helicopter crash when he was chief minister. Jagan stormed out of the Congress a few weeks ago, the climax of his rebellion against his party ever since it decided that he would not replace YSR as the head of the government.
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Though he has been fasting for the last six days, his BP and sugar levels have not come down," he said, uncharitably.
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