The video of his speech, which stirred controversy, had gone viral as his warning has invited widespread outrage over his conduct of addressing the pandemic and vaccine mandate.
Murugan was appointed as the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying, and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja had demanded the resignation of Inder Singh Parmar and urged Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take stern action against Parmar.
In line with achieving 100 per cent vaccination, the Ujjain district administration in Madhya Pradesh has issued an order of arresting the salary for the government employees if they fail to receive the vaccine.
Bagri had breathed his last on Monday evening due to the pandemic. He has become the third MLA of Madhya Pradesh to succumb to the pandemic in the last 17 days.
The Congress leader further said that BJP MP Thakur, who won the Lok Sabha polls from Bhopal with a huge margin, was also missing during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.