Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress Party in India and often regarded as India's most powerful politician, was released from the hospital on Tuesday after falling ill during a Parliament debate according to ABC News.
Ghulam Nabi Azad told journalists that during her five-hour stay in the hospital, Gandhi, 67, underwent a series of tests and was discharged afterwards.
Although she suffered from a fever two days prior to Monday night's debate, Gandhi attended Parliament and gave a speech in support of a bill that proposed cheaper grain to more than 800 million people across the country -- one of the world's largest welfare programs. Gandhi has insisted the bill be passed to ensure that the country's poor is not left behind as India grows as a strong economic power.
During the nine-hour long debate, she began feeling ill and was taken to the hospital by her son, Rahul, and other Congress Party members. Aside from recommending that Gandhi take time to rest, Azad said doctors did not say she should be concerned.
"She is perfectly fine," Azad said. "There is nothing to worry."
The Congress Party has been extremely secretive about their leader's health in the past. Reuters reported Gandhi was treated for a mystery illness in 2011, which many news outlets said was cancer.
Gandhi is an Italian-born Indian politician and widow of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India and member of the Nehru-Gandhi family -- a political dynasty in India. Six years following her husband's assassination, she reluctantly entered politics in 1997 and was elected as president of Congress a year later.
In 2010, she became the longest-serving president in the history of the Congress Party.
Last year, Forbes magazine listed Gandhi as the world's sixth most powerful woman.