Newsinc24 Team 
Congress leader and former member of Parliament Karuna Shukla, 70, died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in Raipur on Tuesday. Shukla, a niece of late former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was a two-time Lok Sabha member. She quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined Congress in 2013 after she was denied a ticket for the Chhattisgarh assembly elections. In 2018, Shukla contested the assembly elections against former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh but lost. Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel expressed grief over the demise of Shukla. “My aunt Karuna Shukla is no more. The ruthless corona... I continued to get her blessings...,” he tweeted.
A fourth candidate contesting the ongoing assembly polls in West Bengal amid the second Covid-19 wave died on Monday night after testing positive for the disease. Samir Ghosh, 42, was an independent candidate from Baisnabnagar in Malda district, which is scheduled to go to the polls in the last and eighth phase of staggered polling on Thursday. Union minister Babul Supriyo, who is also contesting the polls, is among the candidates, who have tested positive for the disease in the state. Pradip Nandi, a Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate from Jangipur in Murshidabad, Congress’s Rezaul Haque, who was contesting from the same district, and Kajal Sinha, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) nominee from Khardaha in North 24 Parganas, also died of Covid-19. West Bengal has around 95,000 active Covid-19 cases. It reported around 16,000 infections and 68 deaths on Monday.
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