Unusual. Indian elected official hospitalized after drinking river water to prove it was not polluted

The senior official of the Indian state of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, was shown last Sunday drinking a glass of water from the Kali Bein river to celebrate 22 years of its cleaning.

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On Tuesday, he had to go to the emergency room for severe stomach pains. He was airlifted to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital.

According to theIndian Expressconcordant sources claim that his pain was related to the water from the river he had drunk.

The video filmed on the Kali Bein river, accompanied by the fact that the minister had to be hospitalized, was widely relayed on Twitter.

On Friday, the minister resumed his duties, without having more information on his state of health.