Former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi tests positive for COVID-19;HAM meet put off

Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has tested positive for COVID-19 following which Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) national executive meeting has been put off.

According to a statement issued by HAM on Monday, its septunarian founding president was convalescing after testing positive for coronavirus.

party office, which has been set up by Strand Ro bungalow allotted to Manjhi in his capacity as an ex-CM, has also been shut down for a week, statement said.

party's national executive meeting, scheduled for December 18, has refore been deferred.

Manjhi h formed party in 2015, after stepping down as Chief Minister and quitting JD(U). He returned to NDA ahe of recent assembly polls, burying his differences with former mentor Nitish Kumar.

His son Santosh Kumar Suman is a member of newly- formed state cabinet heed by JD(U) chief.

mercurial leer h on Sunday raised hackles of NDA by threatening to launch an agitation if government did t implement measures envisioned by him for employment generation and reservations during his brief tenure as Chief Minister.

Congress legislature party leer Ajit Sharma, however, questioned Manjhis stance and said "what is he doing in a coalition which is paying heed to his concerns? If he is serious, let him come out of NDA and we will join him in his stir for job creation". 

(IM CREDITS: PTI)