Bhubaneswar: The number of the COVID-19 affected legislators of BJD went up to 19 in the state on Saturday after Kendrapada MLA Sashi Bhusan Behera and Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher tested positive for the virus.
In a tweet, Behera said that he had undergone the test recently after developing flu-like symptoms and the test report he received on Saturday confirmed him to be positive.
Stating that he is in home isolation, Behera said those who have come in contact with him recently should undergo the test at the earliest.
The Patnagarh MLA has also requested the same to the people who have come in contact with him.
Apart from these two MLAs, Nabarangpur MLA Sadasiva Pradhani, Laxmipur MLA Prabhu Jani, Anandpur MLA Bhagirathi Sethy, Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Basudevpur MLA Bishnubrata Routray, Bhubaneswar North MLA Susant Rout, Bhubaneswar Central MLA Ananta Narayan Jena, Berhampur MLA Bikram Panda, Chandbali MLA Byomakesh Ray, former Badamba MLA Debi Prasad Mishra, Pottangi MLA Pritam Padhi, Bhadrak MLA Sanjib Mallick, Bari MLA Sunanda Das, Polasara MLA Srikant Sahu, Remuna MLA Sudhanshu Shekhar Parida, Jagatsinghpur MLA Prasanta Muduli and Selapur MLA Prasant Behera have tested positive for the virus.
Besides, six ministers Ranendra Pratap Swain, Tukuni Sahu, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Susanta Singh, Arun Kumar Sahu and Padmini Dian and two MPs Ramesh Majhi (Nabarangpur) and Manjulata Mandal (Bhadrak) have also tested positive.
