As his sugar level soar…
On Monday night, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was given insulin at Tihar jail.
After his blood sugar level reached 320. The ideal range should be between 70 and 100.
The AAP leader, a diabetic, criticized the Tihar jail administration for allegedly failing to provide him with insulin despite his repeated requests.
Mr. Kejriwal's accusations were met with a rebuttal from the Tihar jail administration, claiming that during a video consultation with specialists from AIIMS, neither the issue of insulin nor its necessity was told.
"Today it is clear that the Chief Minister was right, he needed insulin. However, the officials under the BJP's central government were deliberately not treating him well. Tell me BJP! If insulin is not needed then why are you giving it now? Because the whole world is cursing them," Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a statement.
A city court had directed AIIMS to assess Mr. Kejriwal's medical needs, mainly regarding insulin.
The court raised discrepancies between the Delhi Chief Minister's dietary regimen which consisted of home-cooked food and doctor-prescribed diet.
In a letter to the Tihar jail superintendent on Monday, Mr. Kejriwal rejected the jail administration's claim that the issue of insulin was never raised by him in his consultations with the doctors. Mr. Kejriwal said that he had raised the question of insulin demand persistently over 10 days.
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