Kolkata: A photograph is being widely circulated on social media with the claim that the BJP’s National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and National Vice President Mukul Roy didn’t wear masks when they went to meet the party’s West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh, who has tested positive for Covid and is in hospital.
Dilip Ghosh was admitted to a private hospital on Friday night, with high fever, and the photograph of the two BJP leaders meeting him at the hospital cabin went viral today.
Meeting COVID Positive Dilip Ghosh without wearing any Mask. Only BJP Leaders can Show Such Courage. @MukulR_Official @KailashOnline pic.twitter.com/0WoT31EkYU
— The Enigmous (@_TheEnigmous) October 17, 2020
Fact check
The photo that was shared on social media was taken in 2017, when Vijayvargiya and Roy went to visit Ghosh at another branch of the same hospital where he is being treated now. Ghosh is currently at the Salt Lake branch of a private hospital, but the picture is from when he was admitted to the Dhakuria branch for other health issues.
A senior official of the hospital told ThePrint, “Dilip Ghosh is undergoing treatment in the Covid building of the hospital. According to the government guidelines, outsiders, including family members, are not allowed to visit a Covid patient in any hospital. Nobody is allowed inside the Covid building.”
“The photo that is being circulated was taken three years back when he was admitted to another branch of our hospital with some other complications,” added the official.
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