Lakya Anantharamaiah Ravi Subramanya (born 20 May 1958)[1] is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the Basavanagudi constituency in Bangalore district.[2][3][4] He is married to Manjula Ravi Subramanya.[5] In the 2019 Indian general election his name was one of many recommended for contesting from the Bangalore South (Lok Sabha constituency), but in the end his nephew Tejasvi Surya was chosen.[6]
L. A. Ravi Subramanya | |
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| Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2008 | |
| Preceded by | K. Chandrashekhar |
| Constituency | Basavanagudi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lakya Anantharamaiah Ravi Subramanya 20 May 1958 Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Relatives | Tejasvi Surya (nephew) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Controversies
editOn 5 May 2021, Ravi Subrahmanya accompanied his nephew [Tejasvi Surya] when he claimed to have unearthed a scam in BBMP's hospital bed allocation system for COVID-19 patients. He was criticised for reading out the names of only 17 out of the 204 employees in BBMP's COVID war room; all the employees he named were Muslim and Surya was accused of communalising the issue.[7] A total of seven people involved in the scam were arrested by the police by 10 May, with Central Crime Branch officers stating that the accused had allegedly blocked real-time data entry to the Central Hospital Bed Management System hosted by the BBMP and allowed admissions of other patients to the hospital illegally.[8] None of those arrested were the employees named by Surya.[9] Later, he apologised to Muslim BBMP staffers by saying that "If anyone or any community is hurt emotionally by my visit, I apologise for that.”[10]
References
edit- ^ "Affidavit-2008-RaviSubrahmanya-Basavanagudi-170" (PDF). data.opencity.in. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Ward information page: 154 – Basavanagudi -". 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Bail out BBMP – Bengaluru MLA thinks loud". OneIndia.com. 30 November 2014.
- ^ Yadav, Umesh (2 March 2016). "Gandhi bazaar as walker zone? Plan gathers dust". The Economic Times.
- ^ http://kla.kar.nic.in/assembly/member/14thWhoSwho/156.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Balakrishnan, Deepa; Pereira, Stacy (23 May 2019). "From Assistant Head Boy in School to MP Ticket, The Meteoric Rise of BJP's Bangalore South Candidate Tejasvi Surya". News18. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Bharadwaj, K. V. Aditya (6 May 2021). "Bed allotment scam: Tejasvi Surya, other BJP legislators draw flak for communalising COVID-19". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Bengaluru Covid bed allocation 'scam': 3 more held, total arrests by CCB now 7". The Indian Express. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ "Bengaluru 'hospital bed scam': No one whose names were mentioned by BJP MP Surya have been arrested, say top police sources". The Times of India. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "BJP MP Tejasvi Surya apologises to Covid war room staff for his communal remarks, say reports". Scroll.in. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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