India may have become the second worst Covid-19 global hotspot in the world, but BJP’s West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh has declared that that corona pandemic is “gone’. He has also accused Mamata Banerjee of gagging the Opposition voice by imposing lockdown in the name of tackling coronavirus pandemic.

Ghosh, who is known for courting controversies in search of quick political relevance, said,  “There is no corona in the market… the pandemic is a thing of past but the Chief Minister is imposing lockdowns in the name of pandemic so as to thwart the BJP’s political programmes from taking place.”

Reacting strongly to his comments senior TMC leader and MP Kalyan Banerjee said that Ghosh was out of his minds and was behaving like an irresponsible politician.

“He is showing all kinds of insanity and has become a fit case to be sent to an asylum,” Banerjee said adding “at a time when the corona infections are rising by the hour with the country recording about a lakh cases every day which is highest in the world this man is saying that there is no corona… In doing so he is contradicting his own BJP Government’s statements on the pandemic.”

CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakrabarty questioned the political sincerity and social responsibility of Ghosh saying he is aspiring to come to power in Bengal and is in such a hurry that he wants to put the people and even his own supporters at risk by not only calling them to crowded programmes but also by making them corona insensitive with such kind of assertions that the pandemic has gone.

Meanwhile, three senior IPS officers, including Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma, were reported corona positive, sources said adding Sharma has been sent to isolation with minor symptoms and was carrying on his duties from his home