Union Minister Anant Geete, who visited AIIMS to enquire about Atal Bihari Vajpayee's health today, said the former prime minister and the Shiv Sena founder, Bal Thackeray, had shared a deep friendship.
Geete, the lone minister from Shiv Sena in the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, was accompanied by Aaditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a press conference here later in the day, the minister said Vajpayee and Bal Thackeray shared a deep friendship when the latter was alive.
According to him, Vajpayee's condition appears to be stable.
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