Siddhartha Shankar Ray ill, admitted to nursing home

Former West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray was today admitted to a city nursing home with complaints of kidney complications and other ailments.

A medical bulletin issued by Woodlands nursing home said the condition of 89 year-old Ray was "stable" and he was comfortable.

"Ray underwent a CT scan during the day and some more tests will be done on him tomorrow," it said.      "Besides the kidney complications he is also suffering from fever," one of the doctors attending on the former ambassador to US, said.

Ray's family said he was unable to move due to severe pain in his legs for quite some time. 

Ray, also former Punjab governor, was last seen in public when he had gone to see his friend and successor Jyoti Basu at AMRI Hospital at Salt Lake in January.