Trinamul Congress state secretary and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Monday called the Woodburn Block of SSKM Hospital in Calcutta — where the party’s Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal is currently admitted — a “safe shelter of convicts”.

The journalist-turned-politician also lashed out at a state minister without naming him and said that person must be “behind bars” for his association with the iCore deposit case.

“The influential people are treated at the Woodburn Ward. But my toothache remained unattended (when I was in jail). Is the Woodburn a hospital or a safe shelter of convicts?” Ghosh asked while appearing in a special court for MPs and MLAs in Calcutta in connection with an attempt to suicide case when he was in jail.

“In the iCore case... the person who has been seen speaking from the stage, had called me insane. He has become a minister now, but that person should be behind bars.… The conspirators are roaming freely outside,” he apparently added.

Later, Ghosh, said: “I had said in the court whatever I had to in response to some questions hurled at me.…I don’t want to talk about them anymore.”

The comments from Ghosh, believed to be a close aide to Trinamul general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, come at a time when a power struggle between generations seems to have broken out in the ruling party.

State industry minister and Trinamul secretary general Parth Chatterjee had been questioned by the CBI in the iCore deposit case.

Last week, When Mondal was rushed to SSKM Hospital on a day he was supposed to appear before the CBI, Ghosh had reminded journalists that he had never skipped the summons by investigating agencies.

A few days later, when Ghosh was asked to comment on a CBI inquiry into an alleged scam in the School Service Commission recruitment, he had said the questions would be best answered by former education minister Partha Chatterjee.