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BJP MLC Hari Narayan Choudhary died of COVID-19 while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Patna
BJP MLC Hari Narayan Choudhary died of COVID-19 while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Patna, an official said on Saturday. Choudhary, 77, was elected from the Samastipur District Local Area Authority.
He was admitted to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna about a week ago after testing positive for COVID-19, said Awadhesh Narain Singh, the acting chairman of the Bihar Legislative Council.
Choudhary died around 11 pm on Friday while undergoing treatment, he said.
Expressing condolences, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Choudhary was very popular among the people and had a keen interest in social work.
Bihar assembly. (File photo)
PATNA: Bihar Legislative Council chairman Awadhesh Narain Singh on Monday ordered closure of the council and its secretariat till April 25 after one more employee died of covid-19.
“Lal Babu Ram, a sweeper in the council, died of covid-19 at his residence in the state capital. He was the third council employee who died of covid-19 in the last 10 days,” the Council public relation officer AJit Ranjan told TOI on Monday.
After a brief condolence meeting, the chairman ordered closure of the council and its secretariat till April 25 to check further spread of covid-19 infection among other employees.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday strongly defended his government against accusations of maladministration and berated the opposition for its allegations but making itself scarce whenever it was countered with facts. Observations to the effect were made repeatedly by the chief minister on the floor of the Assembly while replying to the debate on the motion of thanks to the governors address. The 70-year-old leader spoke for more than an hour and the last 30 minutes were spent with the opposition in abstentia as MLAs of the RJD, Congress and the Left staged a walkout expressing dissatisfaction with the chief ministers reply.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday called his Uttarakhand counterpart Trivendra Singh Rawat over phone and enquired about the flood situation in the northern state, an official release here said. He offered support to Rawat in this hour of crisis, the release said. A glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district, leading to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and causing large-scale devastation in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas. Earlier, Kumar prayed for the safety of people trapped in the northern state as well as those engaged in carrying out relief and rescue operations.