Alleged audio clip of Tejasvi Surya gone viral

Bengaluru: On Friday, an alleged audio clip of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya went viral in which it seemed as if he was apologising to BBMP’s Covid-19 war room staff members. However, the office of Surya who came up with the bed scam slammed the reports and termed it as fake.

His office wrote on social media, “When one has no news, they create fake news.”

All zonal war rooms are under surveillance, especially the one in the south zone after Surya claimed that some members took bribes for blocking of hospital beds. He had visited the south zone war room on Tuesday and his reading out the names of 17 Muslim staffers led to great controversy.

Many BBMP staffers claim that the phone numbers of all 210 war room employees have been leaked and they are getting threatening calls due to which they are staying away from work.

On Thursday, Surya visited the south zone war room again. In the alleged voice clip, a man can be heard apologising for causing inconvenience to the staffers and denies leaking any numbers. The man can be heard saying, “From my end I am telling you, I am really sorry. This was not our intention. We did not do this and we did not know this would end up like this. To solve this issue, we will ask the police to investigate who leaked the numbers.”

Surya’s office stated that he usually visited the war room twice a week.

In the meantime, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain and party MLAs Krishna Byre Gowda and Zameer Ahmed Khan have registered a complaint about the controversy with the police commissioner. They claim that Surya and some BJP MLAs made statements targeting people from only one community during their visit to the war room on Tuesday.