NEW DELHI: Even before the war against Corona is far from over, a full scale political battle has broken out between the BJP-ruled Centre and the Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal government, sparked off by the “unannounced” landing of central team of officials in Kolkata on Monday morning.With West Bengal chief minister and TMC chief, Mamata Banerjee , reading the move as an affront to federal norms of governance, the TMC has accused the Centre of “playing politics at a time when states and the Centre are expected to work together to combat Corona.Addressing the media, Banerjee shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring the issue of “breaking federal norms” to his notice, on Monday evening.On Tuesday, TMC parliamentary leaders Sudip Bandopadhyay and Derek O’Brien questioned “the intent of the Centre,” while asking, “why Opposition-ruled states like Bengal are being put on targeted watch when BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh or even states like Tamil Nadu and Telengana ruled by friendly parties, with high rise in Corona-positive cases were not being monitored by the Centre.""Centre should clearly say why the central has come, then there should be no problem if there is no ill intention behind this,” said Bandopadhyay, when asked why the state government was outraged by the move.“Unfortunately when Bengal and all the other states are fighting Corona, the Centre is fighting the states,” said O’Brien, alleging that the Centre refused to call off Budget session (of Parliament) and delayed a lockdown when the virus was spreading, paying no heed to TMC’s warning on social distancing to be observed, apparently to install a BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.“It is a health emergency. Let’s fight it together, not as state, or Centre. Let’s get back to politics after this (Corona) is over,” he said.Bandopadhyay said, “people want to know what the central ministerial team is looking for, what they have found and why it has consulted with the chief minister or any state government officials on their purpose of visit,” making it clear that the ruling TMC did not welcome such political moves when the state is functioning in "coordination with the Centre, keeping in line with every guideline laid down by NICED to combat Corona," he said.Asked whether people will suffer if the war against Corona gets caught in a political turmoil, Bandopadhyay said, “hopefully good sense will prevail. Centre will restrain itself in future and will consult concerned state governments, for comprehensive and well structured moves to fight Corona and state governments will cooperate.”