The 96-year-old former deputy prime minister has been admitted in the old private ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and is learnt to being treated by doctors from the Department of Urology.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday, ahead of his bid to form the government for a third consecutive term.

Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), officially filed his nomination for the Lok Sabha seat in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.