BJP West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh blocks ambulance in Nadia

Kolkata: The chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal unit, Dilip Ghosh was on Tuesday heavily criticised for blocking the way of an ambulance during his public meeting in the state’s Nadia district. While criticism mounted for his act, Ghosh told Times Now that he did not have spare time to discuss the issue.

Here’s what happened in Nadia on Tuesday:

Ghosh was addressing a public meeting in Nadia, which was being attended by a couple of hundred supporters. While the meeting was underway on the main road, an ambulance approached seeking way to a hospital.

The BJP state chief, visibly angry at the ‘interference’, gestured the ambulance to move back and take another route instead of asking his supporters to give way.

As per Times Now correspondent Tamal Saha, Ghosh alleged that the ambulance had been sent by the Mamata Banerjee government to disrupt his public meeting.

Least concerned about the patient who desperately needed medical attention, the BJP state chief called the entire incident a drama and a conspiracy by the Trinamool Congress government.

He argued that the ambulance could have taken a different route instead of the road where he was holding the small rally.

Later, speaking exclusively to Times Now, Ghosh justified his act and even tried to reason that the ambulance was empty.

“Drugs and gold are being smuggled using the ambulance in West Bengal. Criminals and bombs are transported through ambulance here,” the BJP Bengal chief tried to argue live on air.

When he was repeatedly told that he had blocked an ambulance carrying a patient, Ghosh disconnected the call, saying, “Don’t waste my time… I don’t have faltu (spare) time (to waste on such trivial matters).

Times Now correspondent Tamal Saha, meanwhile, has confirmed that the said ambulance was transporting a patient to the hospital.