Congress president Sonia Gandhi underwent surgery in the US today, the details of which are still not available. The official, Janardan Dwivedi, would not comment on the specifics of Mrs. Gandhi's condition. Mr. Dwivedi said he and three other Congress officials -- Defense Minister A.K. Antony, political secretary Ahmed Patel and Mrs. Gandhi's son, Rahul Gandhi -- will look after party affairs while she is gone.
The absence of the 64-year-old figurehead of India's most prominent family dynasty may further hamper the Congress-led coalition government, which is already seen as rudderless amid a raft of corruption scandals and public fury over high inflation. Making the announcement, Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi, told reporters in Parliament House that the 64-year-old leader was recently diagnosed with a medical condition and has been advised surgery.
"Generally her condition is satisfactory but her operation has not taken place as yet," Janardan Dwivedi, a general secretary of the party, told reporters. The land, which belonged to the panchayat, was reportedly alloted to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and HR Sachdeva, a dentist alleged to be close to the Gandhi family.
The Italian-born Gandhi is the leading figure of a family that has ruled the country for much of India's independence, holding together the biggest national party through electoral troubles and scandals in this country of 1.2 billion people.
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