The session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly is scheduled to begin at 11 am today. Earlier yesterday, Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit chaired an all-party meeting in which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Khanna and leaders of Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and Apna Dal (S) participated. This was the third all-party meeting to discuss how to conduct assembly session, Dikshit said. The Speaker said that all the workers of the Legislative Assembly have undergone COVID-19 tests. As per the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh has 50,242 active cases, 1,09,607 cured and discharged patients.

Source: dna August 20, 2020 03:33 UTC