BJP J&K chief Ravinder Raina tests positive for COVID-19

SRINAGAR — J&K’s BJP chief Ravinder Raina on Tuesday tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Announcing it on Twitter, the BJP leader said that he has a slight fever and no other symptoms.

Raina recently accompanied BJP National General Secretary, Ram Madhav and Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh besides several other senior national and J&K leaders including vice president Avinash Rai Khanna to Bandipora.

They had come to express condolences to a party leader who was killed, along with his father and brother, by militants.