With Sharma the latest BJP leader to test positive, Covid-19 has cast its shadow on the assembly session that gets underway at 2pm on Wednesday. Sharma, the BJP MLA from Ballabgarh in Faridabad district, said he was asymptomatic. Ratia BJP legislator Lakshman Napa and his Indri counterpart Ram Kumar Kashyap tested positive on Monday, while Ambala City BJP MLA Aseem Goel tested positive on August 21. Incidentally, the 73-year-old Speaker, who is the Panchkula MLA, has also tested positive. Earlier, six assembly staffers, including Gupta’s political secretary, tested positive.

Source: Hindustan Times August 25, 2020 05:09 UTC