My mind, my brain is all okay: Kalmadi
NEW DELHI: "My mind, my brain is all okay," sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who is in Tihar jail since May in connection with the CWG scam, today said refuting reports that he is suffering from dementia, a disease related to memory loss.
67-year-old Kalmadi was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences this morning to undergo tests to confirm whether he was suffering from dementia.
"He has been taken to the neurology department at AIIMS today at 9 AM," AIIMS spokesperson Sunil Gupta said.
Coming out of the hospital after over four hours, Kalmadi said, "Five years ago I had undergone an operation of the heart valve. Whatever the problem is, it is of the heart and nothing else... My mind, my brain is all ok."
"I remember everything and there should be no doubt about it. Whatever problem is... is regarding my heart. A lot of treatment is being done for that," Kalmadi said.
He had earlier undergone an MRI scan on 19 July at Lok Narayan Jai Prakash Hospital where the tests revealed that he was suffering from dementia which gradually affects cognitive functions of the person affected by it.
The test results stated in medical jargon, "diffused cerebral atrophy with old ischemic changes in brain parenchyma with calcified granuloma in caudothalamic groove on left side (of his brain)".
Kalmadi was today accompanied by Tihar Jail authorities as he went for the health check-up at AIIMS. He claimed all reports stating that he was suffering from dementia was wrong.
"I am perfectly all right. All that you are reading outside is wrong. I have come for a routine check-up," he said.
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Kalmadi to move plea in HC to attend Parliament
NEW DELHI: Congress MP and sacked CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi today withdrew his plea from the trial court, seeking permission to attend the Monsoon Session of Parliament, saying he will approach the Delhi High Court for the same.
Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh accepted Kalmadi's submission that the high court was the appropriate forum to decide his plea for custody parole to attend Parliament.
"The application dated July 22 of Suresh Kalmadi seeking permission to attend the eighth session of Parliament is dismissed as withdrawn," the judge said.
66-year-old Kalmadi, who is a Lok Sabha member from Pune, had on July 22 moved the application for custody parole to attend the 8th session of the 15th Lok Sabha.
Earlier this month, Kalmadi had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar seeking her permission to attend the session of Parliament scheduled from August 1 to September 8.
The Speaker, however, had said he would be able to attend Parliament only after the competent court's permission.
In his application, Kalmadi had told the court that he has been served with summons from Lok Sabha Secretary General T K Vishwanathan to attend the session beginning August 1 and being a peoples' representative "he has a larger role to play in the polity of the nation as an MP."