WATCH: PM Modi halts speech, directs PMO medical team to attend to dehydrated BJP worker

New Delhi: Ahead of the final phase of assembly election in Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing a public rally in Tamulpur. However, more than his speech, the brief halt in his address has become the talking point.

As he was making speech, the Prime Minister stopped midway and brought everyone’s attention to a BJP worker who fainted due to dehydration.

PM Modi caught sight of the worker and asked the medical team accompanying him to immediately approach him.

“The PMO’s medical team should attend to the worker has suffered due to lack of water. It should help them immediately. The doctors who have come with me, please help our friend,” he was heard saying in a video tweeted by news agency ANI.

#WATCH: During a rally in Assam’s Tamalpur, PM Narendra Modi asked his medical team to help a party worker who faced issues due to dehydration.#AssamAssemblyPolls pic.twitter.com/3Q70GPrtWs

— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2021

BJP also tweeted the video of PM Modi taking a pause to extend assistance to exhausted BJP worker.

Pausing in the middle of his speech at Tamulpur in Assam, PM @narendramodi promptly directed the team of PMO doctors to give immediate assistance to an old-aged person, Shri Hari Charan Das, in the rally who was apparently dehydrated.

He has been attended to and is stable now. pic.twitter.com/iuCMCy9LqF

— BJP (@BJP4India) April 3, 2021

PM Modi’s 4-member medical team

As per official protocol, Prime Minister travels with a four-member team of medical experts wherever he goes. The team includes a personal physician, a paramedic, surgeon and critical care specialist. The team is equipped to handle any sort of medical emergency.

PM Modi slams Cong-led ‘Mahajot’ alliance in Assam

During his speech in Tamulpur on Saturday, the Prime Minister said the BJP works for everyone while some parties divide the country for their vote banks.

Targeting the Congress-led grand alliance (Mahajot), PM Modi said that the people of Assam have decided to vote for an NDA government. “They cannot bear those who insult Assam’s identity and propagate violence,” the Prime Minister said.

Assam needs militants who are yet to surrender to return to the mainstream, said PM Modi.