BJP Loses Two MLAs To COVID In A Day: After Ramesh Diwakar, Suresh Srivastava Of Lucknow (West) Succumbs To The Virus

Lucknow, April 23 (TNA) Tragedy hit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh for the second time in a day on Friday as its second legislator in a single day to Corona.

Late night, the MLA from Lucknow (west) and a party veteran Suresh Kumar Srivastava passed away after a seven day fight with COVID. He was on ventilator but breath his last late on Friday.

A professional lawyer, he had won from Lucknow Central assembly seat three times as a BJP candidate and currently represented Lucknow West constituency. BJP lost another lawmaker - Ramesh Diwakar, MLA from Auraiyya Sadar died at Meerut Medical College due to COVID.