The 72-year-old BJP leader, suffering from breathing problems for the past few months, has been undergoing dialysis at the hospital
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Pune Lok Sabha MP Girish Bapat is critically ill and is on life support, officials of a hospital where he is admitted in the ICU said on Wednesday.
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"Girish Bapat is admitted to the ICU at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. He is critically ill and presently on life support treatment. A team of doctors is monitoring him very closely," a hospital release said.
The 72-year-old BJP leader, suffering from breathing problems for the past few months, has been undergoing dialysis at the hospital.
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During the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll held recently, Bapat had guided BJP workers. He had visited a polling booth to cast his vote sitting in a wheelchair with a nasal cannula.
Bapat had served as the MLA five times from the Kasba Peth constituency. He became Pune MP in 2019.
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