PM Narendra Modi prays for Sonia Gandhi's quick recovery, speaks to Sheila Dikshit

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today prayed for Sonia Gandhi's quick recovery and good health after she took ill towards the fag end of a march in Varanasi and spoke to Congress' chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit to inquire about her party chief's condition.

"Heard about Sonia ji's ill health during her Varanasi visit today. I pray for her quick recovery and good health," he tweeted.

Later, Modi also spoke to Dikshit, who was accompanying Sonia and inquired about her health.

Modi also offered to send a doctor and an aircraft to bring the Congress president back to Delhi, sources said.

69-year-old Gandhi had to cut short the roadshow towards the fag end of the eight-km march route this evening after she fell ill as it wound through the streets of the temple town for nearly three hours.

Congress sources said that Gandhi was suffering from viral fever but had decided to go ahead with the roadshow as she was not inclined to cancel it at the last minute.