{"id":326394,"date":"2020-09-14T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326394"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:31:30","slug":"17-mps-test-positive-for-coronavirus-on-first-day-of-parliaments-monsoon-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/17-mps-test-positive-for-coronavirus-on-first-day-of-parliaments-monsoon-session\/","title":{"rendered":"25 MPs test positive for coronavirus on first day of Parliament\u2019s monsoon session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316853 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/parliament.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament.jpg 833w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-696x299.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/>As many as 25 members of Parliament have tested positive for COVID-19 just before the Monsoon session of Parliament. Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde and Parvesh Sahib Singh were among the MPs who have tested positive for virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the members were tested at the Parliament House on September 13 and 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the 17 MPs infected in Lok Sabha, the BJP has a maximum number-12, two from YSR Congress, and one each from Shiv Sena, DMK and RLP, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP&#8217;s Sukanta Majumdar tweeted his positive status on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have tested #Covid19 positive today. I am doing well &amp; taking doctors advice. Requesting all those who have come in close contact with me in the last few days to monitor their health and get tested in case of any symptoms,\u201d he had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 25 members of Parliament have tested positive for COVID-19 just before the Monsoon session of Parliament. Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde and Parvesh Sahib Singh were among the MPs who have tested positive for virus.\u00a0 According to the sources, the members were tested at the Parliament House on September 13 and 14. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326400,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326394\/revisions\/326400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}