PM to meet ailing Basu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going to Kolkata tomorrow to see ailing former West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu. Singh would be leaving for the West Bengal capital in the morning and there was a possibility of the scheduled Union Cabinet meeting being postponed till the evening, official sources said.

The condition of 95-year-old Basu, admitted to a Kolkata hospital with pneumonia, remained critical today. CPI(M) leaders Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat are also likely to leave for Kolkata by tomorrow.