Senior Congress leader and former MP, Karuna Shukla, has died of COVID-19 on Tuesday. She was 70.
Shukla was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Chhattisgarh's Raipur after testing positive for COVID-19.
Shukla, neice of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from Janjgir constituency in Chhattisgarh.
Notably, she was a member of the BJP before joining Congress in 2014.
