The coronavirus is gone, declared the top BJP leader in Bengal at a public rally.
New Delhi:
Elections in Bengal are only a few months away and the state’s BJP unit appears to have recruited the coronavirus into its campaign. “Corona is gone,” declared the top BJP leader in Bengal at a public rally on Thursday, at a time when the country is hitting record peaks in coronavirus cases. Dilip Ghosh claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was only “pretending” the virus is present and imposing shutdowns for the sole purpose of blocking BJP rallies before next year’s elections.
“Corona chole gechhe (The coronavirus is gone). Didimoni (Mamata Banerjee) is simply faking and imposing closures so that the BJP cannot organize meetings and rallies in the state. No one can stop us,” Dilip Ghosh, head of the Bengal BJP he said at a rally in Dhaniakhali.
India has surpassed 45 lakh of coronavirus cases with 96,551 new infections and 1,209 deaths in 24 hours, a record so far. Bengal has about 2 lakh of infections and more than 3,700 deaths.
In his latest comments on the Covid-19 crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged people not to take the coronavirus lightly and follow the rules of wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing until scientists develop one. vaccine.
But a member of his own party appeared to undermine the threat when he addressed a well-attended public meeting at a time when other top leaders had joined rallies online. The BJP earlier this year relentlessly attacked the state’s ruler Trinamool for the worsening virus crisis in Bengal, saying it had deliberately failed to report cases and deaths.
The national head of the BJP, JP Nadda, also took aim at Mamata Banerjee yesterday, calling her government “anti-Hindu” for ordering the closure of Covid on August 5, the date of the dedication ceremony of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. He did so “to prevent people from being a part of the occasion locally,” Nadda said, but at the same time eased restrictions in the state on July 31 for Eid al-Adha.
“This shows that the state’s policies are driven by an anti-Hindu mentality and appeasement policies. The public should be informed about (this),” stated the BJP chief, adding: “Our percentage of votes is continuously increasing (and ) in the In the next elections we have to overthrow the Trinamool Congress government “.
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