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BJP to Centre Send team to tackle dengue in West Bengal

Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, sent a letter to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday, pleading with him to send a team of medical professionals and public health specialists to help what he called a “inefficient state government” deal with the rise in dengue cases and alleviate people’s suffering. The BJP politician claimed in the letter, a copy of which he posted on Twitter, that the financial crisis facing the state government— which is occupied with concealing data on the vector-borne disease—is to blame for the situation’s deterioration. “The dengue situation in West Bengal has spiralled out of control due to an inefficient state government. In a way, the bankruptcy...