Overview

• Paul, 52, was admitted to a private Kolkata hospital late Thursday after feeling unwell following a turbulent West Bengal Assembly sitting.
• A CT scan confirmed a brain stroke, she is under a senior neuromedicine specialist in the CCU, and doctors say she can converse with family with no other deficits noted so far.
• The Assembly session ended with five BJP MLAs, including Paul, suspended, and two colleagues—Shankar Ghosh and Bankim Ghosh—were also hospitalised after incidents in the House.
• Hospital sources suggested stress may have contributed to the stroke, a possibility reported without a formal medical determination.
• BJP president J.P. Nadda sought updates from Suvendu Adhikari and requested photos and videos of the scuffle, and Paul had been treated at the same hospital last month for a chest infection.