Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi was accorded a grand welcome by his party workers on Friday, immediately after his arrival in Guwahati after being declared fit by doctors who performed three critical heart surgeries on him last month at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.
He was earlier scheduled to arrive here on September 8, but astrologers advised him not to travel referring “inauspicious alignment of the stars”. Chief minister is schedule to resume office on Monday.
However, hundreds of party workers and the entire team of his Cabinet ministers who were waiting to greet the chief minister had to be disappointed as team of doctors accompanying Mr Gogoi have advised, not to take strain and remain at safe distance from the crowds for some time.
Mr Gogoi was discharged from the hospital in Mumbai last week and flew to New Delhi on Monday. Mr Gogoi however expressed his gratitude to the people of the state for their support and blessing.
“I thank the people of Assam for their support and best wishes for my speedy recovery. I am feeling much better now and all set to resume office from Monday,” he told reporters.
Doctors at the Asian Heart Institute on August 4 successfully carried out three complicated heart surgeries on 74-year-old Gogoi — a bypass surgery, a valve replacement surgery and a procedure to enlarge two blocked arteries. The surgeries took seven hours.
The chief minister was shifted to the Asian Heart Institute for surgery after the complain of breathing problem and rise in blood pressure on July 24 while attending the meeting of the National Development Council in New Delhi chaired by the Prime Minister.
The Congress party workers comprising cultural troupes were seen lined from airport to the official residence of chief minister near Assam-Meghalaya border. The return of chief minister is expected to infuse energy among the Congress workers in the state which is schedule to go for the elections in May next year. Mr Gogoi is going to resume office on Monday but doctors have advised him rest at least for a month.