New Delhi: There was high voltage drama at AIIMS on Monday over RJD chief Lalu Prasad was discharged. Lalu’s supporters created a ruckus at the hospital alleging that he was being sent back as part of a conspiracy to kill him. Lalu had been referred to the institute from the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, on March 29 with high blood sugar and infection. Last week, the treating doctors found him fit for discharge.

Sources said the RJD leader, serving jail term in fodder scam cases, had sought time till Monday. However, on Monday, when Lalu was being told to prepare for discharge, he wrote to the AIIMS director that he was still unwell. "I want to apprise you that I suffer from heart disease, kidney infection, sugar and many illnesses. I have back pain and repeated bouts of dizziness. I have even fallen in the bathroom several times,” the RJD president wrote.

He also mentioned in his letter, which was tweeted by his son TejashwiYadav, that Ranchi's BirsaMunda jail (where he is lodged) and RIMS do not have facilities to treat kidney-related ailments and that AIIMS should not force him out under "political pressure”. "If I am sent to Ranchi Medical College from AIIMS and it endangers my life, you will be held responsible for that,” Lalu said.

However, AIIMS maintained that he doesn't have any serious medical condition. "He was referred from RIMS Ranchi with high blood sugar and infection. We constituted a board of senior faculty members from departments of medicine, surgery, cardiology, endocrinology and nephrology for his care. He was put on injectable antibiotics and then on oral antibiotics. His blood sugar was controlled and evaluation for cardiac and renal status was done. He showed significant improvement. He had no fever and his antibiotics were stopped,” said a hospital spokesperson