“Need 10 boxes of cigarettes delivered to my home” man asks journalist helping with oxygen and beds
Bengaluru: At a time when the country is worst affected by the deadly second-wave of Coronavirus activists, NGOs, Journalists and others have stepped in to help people in distress. They are using social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram to take distress call from people and to help them.
On Saturday India witnessed nearly 3.5 lakh cases across the country. With cases piling up the state governments have also resorted to night curfews and weekend curfews in their respective states to curb the spread of the virus.
While many are following the COVID protocols of staying at home, some of them are mocking and trolling people who are out on the ground to cover stories, help people in distress, and others.
In one such incident shared by a journalist working with The News Minute, Prajwal shared a screenshot of his Instagram messages where a person was seen asking him to deliver 10 boxes of cigarettes to his home as nobody was delivering it.
“Need 10 boxes of Malbaro lights. Delivered to my home rn. Nobody is delivering” (SIC) the user wrote in his message. (Marlboro lights is a brand of cigarettes)
Prajwal took to his Twitter account and share the screenshot without naming the person who sent him the message and urged people to not do it.
“Please don't do this. I am working on stories and sending emergency requests for oxygen, hospital beds to volunteer teams. Read the situation outside” Prajwal wrote in the tweet.
People on Twitter asked Prajwal to name the person or to share his account ID.
Please don't do this. I am working on stories and sending emergency requests for oxygen, hospital beds to volunteer teams. Read the situation outside ?? pic.twitter.com/wt3uHoX3g2
— Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) April 24, 2021
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
