Karnataka BJP chief Kateel tests positive for COVID-19
BENGALURU:
BJP Karnataka state unit President Nalin Kumar Kateel on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 but was asyomptomatic.
“I underwent COVID-19 test and the reports have come out as positive. Despite being asymptomatic, on the advice of the doctors, I”m getting hospitalised,” Kateel, also a member of Lok Sabha from Dakshina Kannada constituency, tweeted.
ನಾನು #COVID19 ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿದ್ದು ವರದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಸಿಟಿವ್ ಎಂದು ಬಂದಿದೆ. ರೋಗಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳಿಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ವೈದ್ಯರ ಸಲಹೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ದಾಖಲಾಗಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
— Nalinkumar Kateel (@nalinkateel) August 30, 2020
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಆಶೀರ್ವಾದಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಶೀಘ್ರದಲ್ಲೇ ಹಿಂತಿರುಗುವ ವಿಶ್ವಾಸವಿದೆ. ನನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಜಾಗರೂಕರಾಗಿರಿ ಎಂದು ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ.
ನಮ್ಮ ಪಕ್ಷದ ರಾಜ್ಯಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು, ಆತ್ಮೀಯರೂ ಆದ ಶ್ರೀ ನಳಿನ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಕಟೀಲ್ ಅವರು ಶೀಘ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊರೋನಾ ಸೋಂಕಿನಿಂದ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಗುಣಮುಖರಾಗಿ, ಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಚೇತರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಮತ್ತೆ ಎಂದಿನಂತೆ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರತರಾಗಲಿ, ಪಕ್ಷವನ್ನು ಮುನ್ನಡೆಸಲಿ ಎಂದು ಹಾರೈಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.https://t.co/E5Mepd9H05
— B.S. Yediyurappa (@BSYBJP) August 30, 2020
Expressing confidence that with the blessings and good wishes from everyone he will recover and get back soon, the 53-year-old requested all those who had come in contact with him to be cautious. Kateel, who recently completed one year in the party post, has been travelling across the state and holding meetings at several districts strengthening the organisation.
Earlier several senior politicians in the state including Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah, Congress state President D K Shivakumar had tested positive for coronavirus.
While Yediyurappa and Siddaramaiah have been discharged, Shivakumar is undergoing treatment.
Several ministers of the state government, also legislators have tested positive and are under medication. (PTI)
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