Prison report says Kejriwal does not need insulin

Raj Niwas released a medical status report submitted by the Director General (Prisons) to Lieutenant-Governor V.K Saxena.

The report states that according to the doctors who examined him, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s blood sugar levels were “not alarming” and “administration of insulin is not required as of now.”

The report, submitted on April 19, mentions that doctors had examined him on April 3, 6, 10, 15 and 16. The CM has been lodged in Tihar Jail since April 1.

The DG (Prisons) report triggered another round of charges between the ruling AAP, which accused the BJP and the L-G of “pushing the CM towards a slow death”, and the Opposition party, which responded by saying that AAP was “trying to sail through a political storm by selling stories of illness”.

The report also states that Mr. Kejriwal was started on oral medication after he had recently complained of a blood sugar level spike and that his sugar and blood pressure are being reviewed daily.

It also says during his first medical examination on reaching Tihar Jail on April 1, Mr. Kejriwal gave a medical history without documentation that he had been taking insulin for the last few years and had stopped taking it a few months ago on advice from a doctor from Telangana.