Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's health was "still very critical" and he was on ventilator support and dialysis, the doctors attending on him said on Tuesday.
Forty-eight-year-old Pravin was held guilty on Monday for murder and trespassing into his brother's house with an intention to commit an offence punishable with death.
Uma said she had some reservations regarding Pramod Mahajan's inclusion in the new team of BJP office-bearers.
Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Pramod Mahajan has shown some signs of consciousness but continues to be 'quite critical'.
The court dismissed Pravin's plea of mental instability.
Mahajan was known for his ability to carry with him friends and opponents alike, the tributes said.
Pravin (50) -- serving a life term for the murder of his brother and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan -- was admitted in the Jupiter Hospital last Friday after he complained of fatigue and severe headache at home, and is still in an unconscious condition.
Mahajan had made the remark in a recent TV interview.
Pramod Mahajan's close aides, Sudhanshu Mittal and Harish Sharma, have also been summoned.\n
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Though it did strike him to give the statement earlier, he could not as Mahajan was critical and his sister-in-law Rekha was not keeping well.
Pravin is accused of shooting Pramod multiple times with his licensed gun at the latter's Worli residence, resulting in his death.
In its first list of candidates for the assembly elections, BJP announced the names of 66 candidates of which 23 are sitting MLAs who have been given the tickets.
On Pravin's plea, the court also asked the jail authorities to provide the accused with all the periodicals and newspapers prescribed in the jail manual.
The HC has asked the Delhi police to answer some queries in a fortnight.
During the cross-examination of Hanif Tahirali alias Bandukwala who sold the gun to Pravin, it was revealed that the statement recorded on May 12 last year was dated April 12, 2006, which made it prior to the commission of the crime.
Pramod's brother-in-law Gopinath Munde's statement has come as shot in the arm for the prosecutors in the case.
A computer technician from Pune, who deposed before the sessions court in the Pramod Mahajan murder trial as a defence witness on Thursday, stated that a text message could be fabricated in a mobile phone through computer software. Defence witness Hari Krishna, who has three years working experience with computer related mobile phone functioning, told the court that by using a software called Microsoft Visual Studio, text messages can be tampered with or created.
Proceedings in the case have been adjourned to January 31 when the prosecution is expected to submit a list of documents it will rely on to prove its case.
"I have nothing to say on Nirupam's resignation as it is Shiv Sena's internal matter," the former Union broadcasting and information minister said in New Delhi.
Rahul is marrying Shweta Singh in Mumbai on Tuesday and had sought permission of court to travel abroad for their honeymoon.
Nikam has replaced two-time MP Poonam Mahajan, who is the daughter of the late BJP stalwart Pramod Mahajan.
Since his brain mapping test has been stayed, Mahajan has been allowed to leave for Mumbai.
The letter was seized by the police from Pravin's house after he was arrested for shooting Pramod on April 22 2006, leading to the BJP leader's death 12 days later.
No one from Pravin's family was present at the wedding.
The Bharatiya Janata Party fielded senior leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Palave from Parli even as some partymen protested giving ticket to late Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam in the Maharashtra assembly elections.
A sessions court on Friday deferred till September 8 the trial of Pravin Mahajan, who is facing charges of killing his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Pramod Mahajan.
Late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul Mahajan and his wife Shweta were on Thursday directed by a sessions court in Gurgaon to stay separately for six months before it took a decision on their plea for divorce by mutual consent.
Mittal said the evidence, on the basis of which he has been arrested, was not sufficient as no drugs, as per the tests carried out by the Apollo hospital, were found in Mahajan's body.
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