Apr 29, 2021, 09:14 AM IST
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ajay Bhatt on Thursday (April 29), in a letter to the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, asked if additional financial aid can be given to the families of journalists that lost their lives due to COVID-19.
The MP wrote to CM Tirath Singh Rawat requesting him if a ruling can be passed wherein financial aid be given under COVID-19 Act, besides CM Relief Fund & Journalist Welfare Committee, to families of the journalists who die due to COVID-19, according to news agency ANI.
Meanwhile India recorded the highest spike in COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour span of time on Wednesday (April 28).
Earlier on March 10, Chief Minister Rawat had been sworn in all alone. Barring the newly-appointed state BJP president Madan Kaushik, all other state ministers during former Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat's term have been made ministers in the new government.