They reflect the “mindset” of the party, says Trinamool Congress.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Anupam Hazra has courted a controversy by saying he “will hug Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee if he is infected by the COVID-19” to make her feel the pain of the families of the pandemic patients.
Mr. Hazra, newly appointed national general secretary of the BJP, is a former Trinamool Congress MP, who had represented the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat. The remarks made at a party programme in Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas on Sunday evening triggered an outrage on Monday. Mr. Hazra was speaking to media persons on the COVID-19 situation and how bodies have been denied any respect when he went a little too far.
Mr. Hazra, who taught social work at the Visva Bharati University, was TMC MP from Bolpur from 2014 to 2019. He was expelled from the TMC in January 2019 and joined the BJP. He…