Bengaluru Bed Blocking Scam: Probe Rules Out Muslim Employee Involvement May 08, 2021, 10:05 IST
Bengaluru: The bed blocking scam of Bengaluru has taken a new turn. In their recent investigation, police confirmed that there was no involvement of all the Muslim employees unlike what South MP Tejasvi Surya said.
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya played a major part in the revelation of the bed blocking scam in Bengaluru. But later what he did gave a communal turn to the case. A video was shared on social media where the MP can be seen reading names of those involved in the case. Almost all the names mentioned were Muslims.
Congress leaders call for judicial probe
Terming the problems that have cropped up in bed allocation system in Bengaluru City a ‘BJP bed scam’, Karnataka Congress leaders on Saturday demanded a judicial probe into it. They said that the ‘exposé’ by BJP Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and party MLAs Satish Reddy, Ravi Subramanya and Uday Garudachar was fake.
Senior Congress MLAs Ramalinga Reddy, Krishna Byre Gowda and Dinesh Gundu Rao alleged that loyalists of the BJP MP and legislators had interfered in the functioning of the bed allocation system of the BBMP COVID-19 war room and diverted beds to asymptomatic patients and denied beds to patients having severe symptoms.
Civil society condemns communalisation of bed allotment scam
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They want the CM to ‘chastise’ Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and three MLAs
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MP Tejasvi Surya with MLAs Satish Reddy, Uday Garudachar and Ravi Subramanya at the South zone war room. | Photo Credit:
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They want the CM to ‘chastise’ Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and three MLAs
Activists, prominent citizens, and political leaders condemned Bengaluru South Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya for communalising the alleged bed allotment scandal that he exposed when the city’s resources are strained to the limits fighting the second wave of COVID-19.
Nandan Nilekani helps revamp Covid-19 bed allocation software
Bengaluru south MP Tejaswi Surya said he had a conversation with Nilekani, the non-executive chairman of software major Infosys Ltd this morning and sought his help to revamp BBMP bed allocation software
PTI | May 6, 2021 | Updated 09:47 IST
Non-executive chairman of Infosys Nandan Nilekani
Information technology industry veteran Nandan M Nilekani has extended a helping hand to revamp the computer software relating to bed allocation for COVID-19 patients in the city, Bengaluru south MP Tejaswi Surya said on Wednesday. Surya, along with three BJP MLAs, on Tuesday raised issues of alleged irregularities and anomalies in the city s civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) bed booking for the COVID-19 patients.
BENGALURU: The bed-for-bribe scam, highlighted by ruling BJP s lawmakers on Tuesday and amplified by social media posts, severely disrupted Bengaluru s Covid management system on Wednesday. Several volunteers and contract workers in BBMP zonal war rooms stayed away amid social media insinuations that terrorists were at work.
While police detained seven people, including two contract doctors from BBMP, and nine others for questioning, workers, especially from the minority communities, did not report to duty for fear of being branded terrorists .
BBMP chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta confirmed that the civic body s war rooms ran short of staff at a time when the system too crashed due to overload and overwhelming calls and enquiries. Bengaluru has been consistently clocking over 20,000 cases over the past few days and has the highest active cases in the country at over 3 lakh.