Former finance minister and veteran BJP leader Arun Jaitley,currently admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS)-Delhi, is reportedly in a critical condition. He was admitted to thehospital on August 9. President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Jaitley at around 11am, sources told Zee News.

Jaitley was admitted in the country’s premier medicalinstitution on August 9 morning and was put on ventilator late in the night. Hehas since been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU). Accordingto a release by media and protocol division of AIIMS on the same day, theformer minister is under the supervision of a team comprising multidisciplinarydoctors: “At present he is haemodynamically stable”.

The 66-year-old leader, who held important portfolios duringthe first tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government, has notbeen keeping well for some time. He did not even contest the 2019 Lok Sabhaelection citing health reasons. In February, Piyush Goyal had to present theinterim budget as Jaitley was in the US for treatment.

After Modi government retained power after the Lok Sabhaelections, Jaitley wrote to Prime Minister Modi, saying he would not take upany responsibility/portfolio in the government due to his deteriorating healthcondition.