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Congress shares morphed picture to allege BJP hyperlink with BBMP mattress rip-off

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A day after the Congress get together’s hyperlink emerged within the large BBMP-bed rip-off with the arrest of a Congress supporter, the Congress get together hit a brand new low by sharing faux pictures to focus on the BJP chief and Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya.
On Tuesday, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and BJP MLAs Satish Reddy, Ravi Subramanya, and Uday Garudachar had uncovered the unlawful bed-allotment nexus between civic officers and personal brokers. The BJP leaders had alleged that some officers in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had joined arms with the touts to e book hospital beds within the title of individuals underneath dwelling isolation whereas promoting these beds to different sufferers in want at an exorbitant worth.
Following the huge allegations, the Bengaluru police had arrested one Congress get together supporter named Nethravathy and her nephew for his or her involvement within the unlawful allotment of beds to Covid-19 sufferers in Bengaluru in change for cash. The police had suspected that the accused had contacts with the BBMP conflict room employees.
The accused – Nethravathy and Rohith Kumar, hailing from Begur, had alleged nexus with civic officers and sure personal hospitals, had been caught after the police carried out a sting operation. A police staff, posing as relations of a Covid-19 affected person, had approached them for beds. the accused used to flow into messages on WhatsApp providing assist to Covid-19 sufferers to rearrange beds. The police had mentioned that the duo had established contacts within the BBMP conflict room from the place they availed the allotment.
The duo would cost wherever between Rs.20,000 and Rs.40,000 from the sufferers based mostly on their monetary standing.
Congress get together spreads faux information – shares morphed picture to focus on Tejasvi Surya
As the Congress get together confronted large embarrassment within the state after considered one of its get together supporters was arrested by the Bengaluru police in reference to the BBMP-bed rip-off, the grand-old get together has now resorted to peddling misinformation on social media by posting morphed pictures to allege that the accused is definitely linked with the BJP. They tried to assert that the accused girl Nethravathy is linked with Tejasvi Surya, who in reality, was the primary particular person to show the nexus between personal brokers and BBMP officers within the allocation of beds to Covid-19 sufferers within the metropolis.
Brazening it out on Wednesday, the Congress get together took to Twitter to not solely make abusive slurs in opposition to the younger MP but in addition resorted to sharing faux pictures of him with the arrested Nethravathy to insinuate that the BJP has hyperlinks with BBMP-bed rip-off accused Nethravathy.
Sharing a morphed picture on Twitter, the official Twitter deal with of Karnataka Congress mentioned that the accused Nethravathy (encircled within the beneath picture) was a BJP get together employee.

However, in actuality, the picture shared by the Congress get together is nothing however a badly photoshopped picture. In actuality, the lady who’s seen subsequent to Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya is a distinct particular person and never Congress get together supporter Nethravathy.
In the beneath picture shared by a social media consumer Sharath bs, one can see the actual particular person standing subsequent to Tejasvi Surya.

However, in an try to focus on BJP and the BJP MP, the Congress get together appears to have scored a self-goal by indulging in lazy work of badly morphing a picture to switch the actual particular person with the rip-off accused Nethravathy.
Bed rip-off accused a supporter of the Congress get together
Following the arrest of the accused within the BBMP mattress rip-off, a number of experiences had emerged stating that rip-off accused Congress supporter had participated in a number of rallies and occasions organised by the Congress get together in the previous few years. In addition to that, a number of pictures expose her shut hyperlinks with the state management of the Congress get together.
Here are a few of the pictures by which the accused Nethravathy will be seen taking part in a number of rallies organised by the Congress get together. There are a number of pictures that uncovered her hyperlinks with the Congress get together.
Accused Nethravathy with Congress chief Zameer Ahmad/ Image Source: Asianet
In one other picture, Nethravathy was seen with KPCC working President Eashwar Khandre.
Accused Nethravathy with Congress chief and KPCC working President Eashwar Khandre/ Image Source: Asianet
Congress get together supporter Nethravathy will be seen holding banners that characteristic pictures of Gandhi-scions – Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi.
Accused Nethravathy taking part in Congress get together rallies/ Image Source: Asianet
The alleged involvement of the Congress supporter within the BBMP-bed rip-off has now brought on a large political storm within the state.
BBMP-Bed Scam:
The large rip-off got here to gentle after Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, together with three different BJP MLAs – Satish Reddy, Ravi Subramanya, and Uday Garudachar had stormed into the BBMP conflict room in Bengaluru on Tuesday to show the unlawful bed-allotment nexus between civic officers and personal brokers.
The BJP MP had alleged that some officers in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had joined arms with the touts to e book hospital beds within the title of individuals underneath dwelling isolation whereas promoting these beds to different sufferers in want at an exorbitant worth.
IMPORTANT Addressing problems with irregularities and anomalies in BBMP mattress reserving for covid sufferers in Bengaluru together with Bommanahalli MLA Shri. Satish Reddy, Basavanagudi MLA Shri. Ravi Subramanya and Chickpet MLA Shri. Uday Garudachar. https://t.co/mzjjiQq7AP— Tejasvi Surya (@Tejasvi_Surya) May 4, 2021
Addressing the press convention, Surya had mentioned that there are sufficient beds in Bengaluru metropolis. However, the conflict room personnel had been operating a racket of false blocking the beds. They had been then allotting these beds to the individuals in change for cash. He added that there was a nexus between BBMP officers, Aarogya Mitra hospitals and personal brokers who had been indulging within the mentioned crime.
Further, Surya had questioned the hiring technique of 17 people and requested concerning the company that they belonged to. Some of the names he enquired about whereas confronting BBMP officers are Mansoor Ali, Tahir Ali Khan, Sadiq Pasha, Md Zayed, Alsai Saheer, Umer Khan, Salman Urif, Zameer Pasha, Zabiullah Khan, Sayed Hasnain, Sayed Shahid, Sayeed Shahbaz, Md Yunus, Syed Mohin and Syed Mukesh.