BJP MP's graft charge gets communal, hits Covid work | India News
BENGALURU: The bed-for-bribe scam, highlighted by ruling BJP's lawmakers on Tuesday and amplified by social media posts, severely disrupted Bengaluru's Covid management system on Wednesday. Several volunteers and contract workers in BBMP zonal war rooms stayed away amid social media insinuations that "terrorists" were at work. While police detained seven people, including two contract doctors from BBMP, and nine others for questioning, workers, especially from the minority communities, did not report to duty for fear of being branded "terrorists". BBMP chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta confir...