Jaipur: Netas test Covid positive as SOPs go for a toss

JAIPUR: Covid-19 is spreading among ministers and MLAs in the state who have been meeting large number of people by ignoring social distancing norms in recent times.
The ministers and MLAs, who were in the forefront of JEE/NEET agitation, have now fallen victim to the virus.
Transport minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas had to be shifted to Jaipur’s RUHS Hospital on Monday night after he had complained of fever and difficulty in breathing. The minister, who was admitted in the ICU, is now better, according to doctors.
Former ministers Ramesh Meena and Vishvendra Singh too are infected with the virus.
Former Jaipur mayor Jyoti Khandelwal has tested positive for Covid-19, showing how the number of elected representatives are getting infected with the disease growing by the day.
Khandelwal said that first her husband was tested positive and now she is under the grip of the virus. “I am having fever and in home quarantine. We must have contracted the virus while attending the agitation against the JEE/NEET examination as a large number of people gathered at the protest on August 29 rally,” she said.
Three more BJP MLAs had tested positive for Covid-19 in the last two days. Siwana MLA Hameer Singh Bhayal and Chittorgarh MLA Chandrabhan Singh Aakhya had tested positive on Monday followed by Ashok Lahoty, former Mayor and MLA from Sanganer informing that he had also contracted the virus.
Pabba Ram Bishnoi, the BJP MLA from Phalodi, was the first to test positive, while the recent assembly session was on.
Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Lal Meghwal, MPs Dr Kirorilal Meena and Hanuman Beniwal also tested positive for Covid in the past.