panaji congress on friday demanded an independent inquiry headed by a retired high court judge into the death of twotime mla jitendra deshprabhu state congress president girish chodankar alleged that deshprabhu died due to the negligence of goa medical college authoritiesthere are shocking reports of mission coverup covid19 by the chief minister and health minister which has now compelled us to demand an impartial inquiry in the interest of the health of people of goa said chodankar the congress party said that authorities have made contradictory statements about deshprabhus covid19 test with gmc dean dr shivanand bandekar claiming that the rapid test came negative the health minister tweeted that the rapid test kits were never used and only laboratory tests were conducted on deshprabhu cm pramod sawant said that laboratory tests require six hours to give results but deshprabhu was declared dead just over three hours after he was brought to the hospital if there was no rapid test conducted on deshprabhu but only the laboratory tests which requires a minimum of six hours how was deshprabhu declared covid19 negative when he was declared dead within three hours questioned chodankar citing information gathered by congress workers chodankar said that two onduty doctors were missing when they were needed to attend to deshprabhu