Clashes broke out over inadequate supply of relief materials at Baduria village in North 24 Parganas where the locals blocked roads and clashed with the men in uniform injuring at least four police personnel including an officer in-charge (SHO) of the local police station.
Reacting to the clash the Chief Minister later said that it was not over the Government supplies but over supplies being made by some political parties and NGOs. “There are some areas where the NGOs and some political parties are distributing reliefs. There some clashes took place,” she said adding those who had promised relief materials had failed to provide them.
Food Minister JP Mullick however said that the BJP had incited the people to block the road conceding however that about 20 out of 70-80 people could not be given relief materials which was why the clash broke out.
Back in Kolkata the Government on Wednesday banned mobile phones inside hospitals saying that they were risk and could carry corona infections.
Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha said that the doctors, health workers and patients will not be allowed to use cell phones inside hospitals adding landlines and intercom would be installed for their use as an alternative.
The BJP however protested the order saying the Government move came in the aftermath of footages of dead bodies lying in a corona ward going viral. The video was reportedly taken by a corona patient inside an isolation ward at the MR Bangur hospitals an earmarked corona-care facility.
Meanwhile, the Bengal on Wednesday crossed the 300 mark with 32 more corona infections being reported in the State. The State has so far reported 15 deaths whereas 79 people have been cured.