Lok Sabha Secretariat official tested positive for Covid (representational)
New Delhi:
Several MPs who attended Parliament’s PAC meeting last week went into home quarantine after a secretariat official with Lok Sabha attached to the committee tested positive for COVID-19, sources said on Tuesday.
No fewer than 17 MPs attended the Public Accounts Committee meeting on July 10. Rajiv Mehrishi, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG), was also present at the meeting.
An official from the Lok Sabha secretariat, attached to the PAC, who attended the panel meeting tested positive for COVID-19, the sources said.
Contacted, the president of PAC, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, confirmed that a responsible was positive for the coronavirus.
According to the sources, the officials of the Lok Sabha secretariat informed the members of the official and asked them to take the necessary precautions.
Several MPs later requested a seven-day home quarantine, sources at the Secretariat said.
When questioned, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, a member of the panel, said he was in self-quarantine.
Likewise, another panel member and BJP MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, tweeted that he attended the parliamentary committee meeting on July 10 and after finding out Tuesday that a committee member had tested positive, he entered quarantine at home for seven days.
BJP MPs thwarted Chowdhury’s apparent attempt to take the PM Care fund for deliberation on Friday.
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