Mulayam Singh down with swine flu

Gurgaon: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is suffering from swine flu and has been admitted to a private hospital here, a doctor said Saturday.

Mulayam Singh was admitted at Medanta Medicity hospital in Sector 38.

A.K. Dubey, medical superitendent of Medanta Medicity, told IANS: "Mulayam Singh is responding to the treatment. His parameters are stable but we can't say when he will be discharged."

A team of doctors headed by Sushila Kataria is monitoring his condition.

Sources said Mulayam Singh was brought to the hospital at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday.

Mulayam Singh was on Thursday admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow, before being released and advised rest, a family aide had said.

Yadav has been unwell for the past few days and had taken ill on Wednesday noon after which he was briefly admitted to the Lucknow hospital.