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CM to miss the two-day Assembly session
Deputy Speaker Ranbir Gangwa to preside over the House proceedings
By Lata Baisoya
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and State Legislative Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, besides BJP MLAs Aseem Goel and Ram Kumar tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. On Monday night, another state minister — State’s Transport, Skill Development and Mining Minister Mool Chand Sharma — too tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday night and he got himself home-quarantined here. Besides, six state Assembly staffers were also tested positive for Coronavirus disease.
While Khattar was taken to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research hospital here for a detailed check-up in the evening where doctors said his condition was stable, Gupta got quarantined in his official residence.
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The two-day monsoon session of the State Assembly will commence from Wednesday and now Deputy Speaker Ranbir Gangwa will be presiding over the House proceedings.
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The Assembly speaker had made it mandatory for anyone entering the Assembly complex for the Monsoon Session to show a Covid-19 negative certificate.
It may be mentioned that Khattar had met Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on August 18 and on the same day, Shekhawat informed via a tweet that he had tested positive for COVID-19. “I am hospitalised on the advice of doctors. I request that those who have come in contact with me in the last few days, isolate themselves and get themselves examined,” he had written.
Following this Khattar too had got himself tested on August 20 but his test report had come negative for COVID-19 then. He however had decided to get himself home-quarantined for three days as a precaution.
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