Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's opposition Congress party, was hospitalized Tuesday for a viral fever, ABC news quoted a party official as saying.

Gandhi will spend two days in a New Delhi hospital, party chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said in a statement.

Gandhi, 69, has faced past health problems, but her party has long kept a veil over her personal life. 

She flew to the United States for surgery in 2011, but the party never provided more than cursory information about her condition. 

She is the widow of late prime minister Rajif Ghandi who was assassinated in 1991.

Source: MENA