File photo of Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh.
Dilip Ghosh’s comments came on a day when West Bengal reported more than 3,000 positive Covid-19 cases and 41 deaths. Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma also tested positive for the fatal virus as the overall count rose to 1.93,175 on Thursday.
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In a bizarre claim, Bengal BJP Chairman Dilip Ghosh said on Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is “gone” and that the lockdown imposed on the state is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s attempt to thwart the rallies. saffron party politicians. “Corona is gone,” Ghosh said at a packed public rally in West Bengal’s Hooghly district.
Ghosh’s comments came on a day when West Bengal reported more than 3,000 positive Covid-19 cases and 41 deaths. Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma also tested positive for the fatal virus as the overall count rose to 1.93,175 on Thursday. Meanwhile, India recorded a record 96,551 coronavirus cases in 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to more than 45.62 lakh on Friday.
“Eto bhid dekhey … didir bhai der shorir kharap today gechhey … Corona te noy..Corona chole gechhey … asholey tara bjp ke bhoy pachhey. BJP ke atkabar jonney, Didimoni Coronar naamey dhong korchen (Seeing the crowd, the TMC workers from Mamata Banerjee have gotten sick. Not from the Corona virus. ‘Corona is gone.’ Actually, they are scared of BJP and to prevent us from organizing rallies in Bengal, Didi is making drama on behalf of the coronavirus), ”Ghosh said, while addressing a public rally in Hooghly’s Dhaniakhali.
In back-to-back controversial statements, the Bengal BJP chief also called on the crowd “to be ready to take revenge on the police and TMC workers who reported false cases against the BJP workers.”
“Please prepare with your iron bars for those who assaulted you with iron bars. Keep a record of all the police and TMC workers who accused you of bogus cases and assaulted you, ”he said.
The ruling Trinamool Congress harshly criticized Ghosh for his “horrible” statement.
“As the whole of India continues to fight tirelessly against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, Dilip Ghosh announces that Corona is over. He evidently values the politics of vote banking above human lives,” tweeted All India official Trinamool Congress (AITC).
Ghosh is known to provoke fights with his controversial comments and has often fallen for a soup.
Recently, he claimed that ruling party workers will be beaten with shoes as “a section of the state police force was intimidating the workers of his party,” and those involved would not be allowed to get away with impunity.
Last year, on August 27, Ghosh threatened a policeman in East Medinipur that “no one will be able to trace his body and members of his family will not be able to perform his last rites if he continues to harass party workers in the district. “In an earlier instance, he had asked party workers to” beat the police officers if they hesitated to take action against supporters of the Trinamool Congress. “
“We have the democratic right to hit policemen who are biased and specifically target us on instructions from TMC,” Ghosh had said at a public meeting in Howrah.
In November last year, Ghosh had attacked a section of the intelligentsia for “eating meat from roadside stands” and “taking pride in cleaning foreign dog droppings.”
He went on to claim that desi cow’s milk contains gold and therefore “their milk is golden in color.”
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