Summary Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to his family and prayed for Singh's speedy recovery.
NEW DELHI (Web Desk) - Former BJP leader Jaswant Singh is in a "very critical" condition and in coma at Army Research and Referral hospital where he was admitted early on Friday after a fall at his residence that left him with a head injury.
"At present the condition is very critical. He is on life support systems and under constant monitoring by a team of neurosurgeons and critical care providers," a defence ministry release said, adding that a lifesaving 'decompressive hemicraniectomy' has been done.
The 76-year-old former defence minister was admitted to the hospital in a highly critical condition around 1am today with injury to his head after his family members brought him to the hospital after finding him lying on the floor of the house in an unconscious state, the ministry said.
A senior doctor at the hospital said that Singh has been operated upon for head injury and he is in a critical condition in the ICU.
Singh, who had also served as External Affairs and Finance Minister, was expelled from the BJP early this year after he decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Barmer in Rajasthan as an Independent when the party decided to field someone else.
