: BJP’s Tejasvi Surya gives Covid crisis communal twist as he alleges corruption in bed allotment #IndiaNEWS A group of Bharatiya Janata Party legislators brought up alleged corruption in the Bruhat

BJP’s Tejasvi Surya gives Covid crisis communal twist as he alleges corruption in bed allotment #IndiaNEWS
A group of Bharatiya Janata Party legislators brought up alleged corruption in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s bed allocation to Covid-19 patients amid the second wave of the pandemic, in Karnataka’s capital. In doing so, the group, including Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, also gave a communal twist to the allegations, accusing Muslims in the war room of being responsible for the conspiracy, without any evidence. In addition to Surya, the group comprised Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy, Basavanagudi MLA Ravi Subramanya and Chickpet MLA Uday Garudachar. The BJP is the biggest member of the BBMP, and Bengaluru Mayor Gowtham Kumar is a corporator of the saffron party.The allegations raised doubts about the system of bed allocation across Bengaluru, done by the South Zone Covid-19 war room.Surya claimed that beds were being blocked under the names of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients or those under home isolation, but were sold to others. Officials at these war rooms operate a centralised number, through which beds are allotted to government hospitals or to private institutions that have reserved some beds for the state.“There’s a nexus of certain BBMP officers, certain Aarogya Mitra [a frontline healthcare service] hospitals and certain agents who have made this ‘bribes for beds’ scam,??? Surya...Read more

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