AAP claims Arvind Kejriwal lost 8.5 kg. Tihar jail rebuts: Delhi CM ‘lost only…’

Delhi cabinet minister Atishi claimed that Arvind Kejriwal had “unexplained weight loss of 8.5 kg” since his arrest.Tihar jail sources on Monday said Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had only lost 2 kg in prison, and he was being regularly monitored by a medical board of the All India Institute of Medical Sciencies or AIIMS. The response comes a day after Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Sunday that the Bharatiya Janata Party was conspiring to harm the chief minister’s health by keeping him in jail and that he was not getting the necessary medical attention as a diabetic.The unnamed sources told news agency PTI that the jail administration has written to the Delhi government’s home department regarding the allegations levelled by AAP ministers and leaders, saying that such a narrative “confuses and misleads the public”.On Sunday, Delhi cabinet minister Atishi claimed that Arvind Kejriwal had “unexplained weight loss of 8.5 kg” since his arrest, adding that that his sugar level had dropped below 50 mg/dL more than five times in prison.A similar claimed was made AAP MP Sanjay Singh on Monday saying the Tihar authorities have accepted that Arvind Kejriwal has lost weight. He claimed the AAP chief could go into a coma or suffer a brain stroke if his sugar levels drop while he is asleep.“Making the medical report of any patient public is an offence. Several times the jail administration has made the medical report of the chief minister of Delhi public. This proves that a conspiracy is being hatched to play with the life of Arvind Kejriwal…Action should be taken on this,” Sanjay Singh told news agency ANI. According to Arvind Kejriwal’s health report shared by the Tihar sources, her weighed 65 kg when he first came to prison on April 1 and 66 kg between April 8 and 29, PTI reported. When he returned to prison on June 2 after a 21-day bail, his weight was 63.5 kg, it added.“On July 14, his weight was 61.5 kg. So, effectively, he lost 2 kg,” PTI quoted an official source as saying.The sources added that Arvind Kejriwal is being provided home-cooked food but he has been regularly returning portions of it since June 3.A medical board of the AIIMS has been constantly monitoring the chief minister and his wife Sunita Kejriwal remains in regular touch with the board, the sources said, PTI reported.