GUWAHATI/SILCHAR: While former Congress Lok Sabha member Sushmita Dev has tested positive for coronavirus, the Assam government refuted the media reports that Akhil Gogoi, jailed top farmers leader, tested Covid-19 positive.

All India Mahila Congress (AIMC) chief and the party’s national spokesperson Dev, daughter of former Union Minister Santosh Mohan Dev, was admitted to the Silchar Medical College and Hospital after she tested nCoV positive.

"I have tested positive for Covid-19. I am asymptomatic as of now," the 48-year-old Congress leader tweeted. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra inquired about her health.

On Akhil Gogoi testing Covid-19 positive, Inspector General of Prisons Dasarath Das said he had not received any such report from the health department.

Gogoi's legal counsel Santanu Barthakur told the media, "I received the news that Gogoi has tested positive for Covid-19."

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samitee (KMSS) founder is lodged in the Guwahati Central Jail for the past seven months for his role in the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.

On Wednesday, two associates of Gogoi, who are in the judicial custody, tested Covid-19 positive.