NEW DELHI: Two young journalists, Ashish Yechury and Chanchal Pal Chauhan, succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday. Their passing was deeply mourned by former colleagues and the wider journalistic community.
Ashish, 34, the son of CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, was undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a Gurgaon hospital, where he breathed his last.
“It is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son Ashish Yechury to Covid-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us,” Yechury said on Twitter.