Rajnath Singh visits former PM Vajpayee in AIIMS

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at AIIMS today.

Vajpayee was previously admitted to the hospital on June 11 with a kidney tract infection, chest congestion and urine output on the lower side.

A number of senior political leaders, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, to BJP chief Amit Shah, and former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and H D Deve Gowda, visited Vajpayee at AIIMS in June.

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Vajpayee, a diabetic, has one functional kidney. He had suffered a stroke in 2009 that weakened his cognitive abilities. Subsequently, he developed dementia.

He was thrice elected as prime minister between 1996 and 1999 and is the only non-Congress prime minister to complete a full term of five years, from 1999 to 2004. As his health deteriorated, he slowly withdrew himself from public life and remained confined to his residence.