From correspondents in West Bengal, India, 07:30 PM IST

Former West Bengal chief minister and veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu, who is in a nursing home here with a head injury after a fall at his residence last week, underwent a CT scan again Sunday, a hospital spokesman said.

'Basu underwent the scan Sunday morning. The report will be placed before the 10-member medical board which will meet Monday morning. Then we will decide what to do,' AMRI Hospitals vice president S. Upadhyay told reporters.

Upadhyay said other than a blood clot in the head, the 94-year-old leader was stable and on normal diet.

Meanwhile, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Brinda Karat, who visited Basu Sunday, hoped he would be released Monday.

Basu suffered 'internal haemorrhage in the head' after he fell at his Salt Lake home early Sep 5.

The veteran politician underwent a CT scan a day after his fall and was advised hospitalisation. He also received stitches on his forehead.

Basu was the West Bengal chief minister from 1977 to 2000.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)