Three BJP lawmakers led by party hawk Tejasvi Surya have found a new way of using the Covid crisis to promote communal hatred, insinuating that Muslims recruited by the civic authorities were accepting bribes to allocate beds in designated Bangalore hospitals.
Surya, Bangalore South MP and BJP Yuva Morcha national president, led a campaign on Tuesday to “expose” the alleged scam by some helpline assistants in the corporation’s war room who had been hired temporarily to allocate Covid beds.
But of the 205 such personnel, he named only 16, all of whom appeared to be Muslims.
In a video clip that emerged on Wednesday, Surya and MLAs Ravi Subramanya (Surya’s uncle) and Satish Reddy can be seen purportedly questioning officials in a Covid war room in the city.
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As India is battling the deadly second wave of coronavirus, an alleged Covid bed scandal has shocked residents in Bengaluru. Speculations regarding the Covid bed scam comes at a time when coronavirus positive cases in the city are rising drastically due to the presence of double and triple mutant variants.
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As news related to the alleged Covid bed scam went viral on the internet, netizens are urging the BBMP to make clarifications on the issue so that public panic can be reduced. However, a section of netizens strongly claimed that the allegations made by a BJP MP regarding fake booking of beds are completely baseless.
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Two people have been arrested, and others are being questioned, after BJP Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya accused city municipal officials of accepting bribes to allot hospital beds in the city - a precious commodity as the Covid pandemic rages.
The arrested have been identified as Rohit and Netra; they allegedly charged between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 for a bed, and police recovered Rs 1.05 lakh from their bank account.
Mr Surya had alleged that a nexus of BBMP officials and frontline health workers is conspiring to buy these beds after snatching them away from people who were dying without ICU care.
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