As Parliament’s monsoon session began on Monday, 25 members from both the Houses tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). While 17 MPs of the Lok Sabha have contracted the disease, as many as eight members of the Rajya Sabha were found to be infected.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said it has carried out testing of more than 2,500 samples of members of Parliament and other officials “on a war footing” over the weekend.
The reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test would continue till the next week for the members of Parliament, officials have said.
Here’s is a list of all 25 MPs who are Covid-19 positive:
Lok Sabha members
1.Sukhbir Singh Jaunpuria- BJP
2.Hanuman Beniwal – BJP
3.Meenakshi Lekhi – BJP
4.Sukanata Majumdar – BJP
5.Anant Kumar Hegde – BJP
6.Goddeti Madhavi – YSRC
7.Pratap Rao Jadav – Shiv Sena
8.Janardan Singh – BJP
9.Bidyut Baran Mahato- BJP
10.Pradhan Baruah- BJP
11.N Reddeppa – YSRC
12.Selvam G – DMK
13.Pratap Rao Patil – BJP
14.Ram Shankar Katheria – BJP
15.Parvesh Sahib Singh – BJP
16.Satya Pal Singh – BJP
17.Rodmal Nagar – BJP
Rajya Sabha members
1.Deepender Singh Hooda – Congress
2.Naranbhai J. Rathwa – Congress
3.A Navneethakrishnan – AIADMK
4.Ashok Gasti – BJP
5.Abhay Bhardwaj – BJP
6.Sushil Kumar Gupta – AAP
7.V. Lakshmikantha Rao – TRS
8.Shanta Chhetri – AITC
