New Delhi: Rajasthan’s Jhalawar-Baran MP Dushyant Singh met President Ram Nath Kovind and 100-odd parliamentarians on 18 March, two days after he attended a party in Lucknow with Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor who has now tested positive for the coronavirus.
Singh is currently in self-quarantine, as is her mother and former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje who was also present at the party.
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Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor is the first celebrity in India to test positive for COVID-19.
Nearly 100 MPs, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani, Skill Development Minister Mahender Nath Pandey, Water Resources Minister Gajender Singh Shekhawat and Minister of State for Road Transport V.K. Singh, were at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on 18 March to attend a breakfast meeting hosted by the President.
A Rashtrapati Bhawan spokesman confirmed that Dushyant Singh had attended the meeting Wednesday.
Singh had even tweeted a photograph after attending the breakfast meeting with Kovind.
“Attended breakfast hosted by Hon’ble President Kovind ji along with Members of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan at Rashtrapati Bhavan this morning,” Singh had posted.
President Kovind has recently started the practice of inviting MPs over breakfast.
Over half-a-dozen cabinet ministers MPs from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, cutting across party lines, were present at the breakfast meeting.
The list included BJP MP from Sultanpur and former WCD minister Maneka Gandhi, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Bhupender Yadav, former tourism minister Mahesh Sharma, and Congress MP Sushmita Dev.
