(SAI Bureau) Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, arrested in a 34-year-old road rage case, has been hospitalized with liver ailments. The cricketer-turned-politician was taken to PGIMER in Chandigarh on Monday.
His condition is now stable, doctors told India Today TV.
A medical board drew a diet chart for Sidhu, who suffers from obesity and metabolic disorder. The first day in jail, Sidhu refused to eat dal roti, saying he was allergic to wheat.
The former chief of Punjab Congress sought permission for a special diet from home, citing health complications. He was examined by doctors on the orders of a court, following which a three-doctor team made a diet chart for him.
SPECIAL DIET CHART AT JAIL
According to the chart, the politician will have to be served seven meals a day. Early in the morning, he can be given half a glass of white petha juice or a glass of coconut water along with a cup of Rosemary tea. The former cricketer will then have to be served a cup of lactose-free milk, one tablespoon of flax, sunflower, melon, or chia seeds, six almonds, a walnut, and two pecan nuts for breakfast.Sidhu’s mid-morning snacks comprise fruit and vegetable juices of various kinds, including a glass of beetroot or bottle gourd or cucumber or sweet lemon or tulsi and mint leaves or gooseberry or celery leaves or fresh turmeric or carrot or aloe vera juice. He is alternatively given a fruit – watermelon, melon, kiwi, strawberry, guava, apple, or wood apple. Choices also include sprouted black chana with green gram dal and cucumber/tomato/half a lemon/avocado.For lunch, he has been asked to eat a roti made by mixing sorghum, singhara, and ragi flour in equal proportions. This with a bowl each of seasonal green vegetable and of cucumber and ghia raita or a bowl of beetroot raita, a green salad and a glass of lassi.
In the evening, Sidhu has been prescribed to have a cup of tea with low-fat milk and no sugar and a slice of paneer or Tofu with half a lemon. At night, Sidhu can have a bowl of mixed vegetable and dal soup/black chana soup sprinkled with black pepper powder and sauteed vegetables, including carrots, beans, broccoli, mushroom, and bell pepper. He has also been advised to drink a cup of Chamomile tea and one tablespoon of Psyllium husk with half a glass of warm water before going to bed. Sidhu was sentenced to a year’s rigorous imprisonment last month by the Supreme Court in the 1988 road rage case. He surrendered on May 20 before the trial court in Patiala and has since then been lodged at the Patiala jail.
