KATHMANDU: Health condition of Bahujan Shakti Party Chairman and Constituent Assembly member Bishwendra Paswan who has been on a fast- unto-death for the past eight days with a charter of various demands is deteriorating.

Doctors attending on him have suggested putting him under the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He has been diagnosed with various health problems including those of urinary system, kidney, sugar level and pressure, according to Dalit Rights Struggle Committee Chair and former lawmaker Binod Pahadi.

Leader Paswan has been on a hunger strike near the CA building, New Baneshwor, demanding the guarantee of 14 per cent representation of Dalits in every state apparatus, 15 per cent representation of the backward community, 10 per cent of Muslims and 37 per cent of the indigenous nationalities in the constitution.

Stern actions against those convicted in the cases of corruption and rape are also his demands.

Earlier, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala had sent a formal letter to Paswan, urging him to break the fast. However, he refused to comply with the PM's call and said he would continue it until his demands were addressed.