‘Congress will seek compensation for COVID-hit’

KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar has said that the party would raise the issue providing compensation to people who lost their family members and jobs and are unable to make ends meet due to COVID-19, d

KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar has said that the party would raise the issue providing compensation to people who lost their family members and jobs and are unable to make ends meet due to COVID-19, during the legislature session. Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Sunday, Mr. Shivakumar said that many people lost their lives in the pandemic, while several others were facing hardships due to huge hospital bills and lakhs of people had become unemployed. There was need for mitigating their sufferings by providing requisite compensation. The party would raise the issue, he said. On Mahadayi and Mekedatu, he said that former CM Jagadish Shettar and CM Basavaraj Bommai often speak a lot about both the projects and now that their own party was in power, he would wait to see what they do, he said.