L. A. Ravi Subramanya Explained

Office:Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency:Basavanagudi
Term Start:2008
Predecessor:K. Chandrashekhar
Birth Date:20 May 1958
Birth Place:Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India
Birth Name:Lakya Anantharamaiah Ravi Subramanya
Nationality:Indian
Occupation:Politician
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Relatives:Tejasvi Surya (nephew)

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]

Controversies

On 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Affidavit-2008-RaviSubrahmanya-Basavanagudi-170. data.opencity.in. 14 June 2019.
  2. Web site: Ward information page: 154 – Basavanagudi -. 20 August 2015.
  3. Web site: Bail out BBMP – Bengaluru MLA thinks loud. 30 November 2014. OneIndia.com.
  4. News: Gandhi bazaar as walker zone? Plan gathers dust. Umesh. Yadav. 2 March 2016. The Economic Times.
  5. Web site: ರವಿಸುಬ್ರಮಣ್ಯ ಎಲ್.ಎ. . kn . Ravisubramanya L.A..
  6. Web site: From Assistant Head Boy in School to MP Ticket, The Meteoric Rise of BJP's Bangalore South Candidate Tejasvi Surya. News18. Deepa . Balakrishnan . Stacy . Pereira. 23 May 2019 . 28 May 2019.
  7. News: Bharadwaj. K. V. Aditya. 6 May 2021. Bed allotment scam: Tejasvi Surya, other BJP legislators draw flak for communalising COVID-19. en-IN. The Hindu. 28 November 2021. 0971-751X.
  8. Web site: 10 May 2021. Bengaluru Covid bed allocation 'scam': 3 more held, total arrests by CCB now 7. 30 May 2021. The Indian Express. en.
  9. Web site: 7 May 2021. Bengaluru 'hospital bed scam': No one whose names were mentioned by BJP MP Surya have been arrested, say top police sources. 29 November 2021. The Times of India.
  10. News: BJP MP Tejasvi Surya apologises to Covid war room staff for his communal remarks, say reports . 26 October 2022 . Scroll.in . 7 May 2021.