Bihar BJP chief, kin test Covid positive

BETTIAH: State BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal was also found corona infected on Wednesday. The Paschim Champaran MP confirmed that he himself, his wife and mother, both practising doctors, along with his brother-in-law tested positive. “We are all asymptomatic and have isolated ourselves at home,” he said, adding that his two children and his PA have tested negative.
“I, along with my family members and staff members underwent the test,” Jaiswal, also a doctor, said. He returned to Bettiah on Tuesday.
“We have sealed the BJP state party headquarters in Patna and every staff member had undergone the Covid test,” he said, adding the BJP is concentrating on virtual intra-party meetings. “Though in home quarantine, I have been participating in several virtual meetings throughout the day,” he said.
West Champaran BJP district president Dipendra Sarraf was also tested positive on Wednesday. Sarraf too has recently returned from Patna. “I have put myself in home isolation,” he told this newspaper after getting tested report from the Government Medical College here.
If the dreaded virus is indeed airborne as is now feared, physical political activity could well become the fuse for its inflammation and conflagration. That such fears are not imaginary could well be understood from the visibly blatant disregard to social distancing at social and political congregations.
At variance with political posturings that parties have taken to the virtual roadmap to the coming Bihar polls, the Bhartiya Yuva Janata Morcha (BYJM) had organised a blood donation camp at Bettiah last Saturday. Jaiswal had inaugurated the event. “I just inaugurated and left immediately,” Jaiswal said. “We keep holding such camps across Bihar. Corona mahamaari mein khoon ki kami naa ho… we held this camp for that,” BYJM district president Dhanranjan Guddu told this newspaper.