Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 20: Chamarajpet MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan, has claimed that he had specifically advised medical staff not to visit Padarayanapura at night. He expressed unhappiness at the fact that they did not pay heed to his advice.

Padarayanapura has been identified as coronavirus hotspot. Police along with health staff had visited the spot to quarantine people having contact with the infected persons on Sunday night. The locals had attacked the health staff and policemen, and a video relating to the incident has become viral.

MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan

Speaking to a news channel, Zameer said that the staff had not followed his advice not to go there during the night. He felt that mornings would have been the right time to approach so many people together. Expressing the opinion that such an incident should not have happened, he demanded action against those who were involved with it.

'Why single community does so?'

Minister C T Ravi, in the meanwhile, expressed anguish at the assault of health workers and police at Padarayanapura and demanded strict action against the guilty. He said that the people involved deserve to be handled in the way the Uttar Pradesh government does or something harsher than that. He felt that action under the Goonda Act would be better, and demanded to recover the loss in the incident from the vandals.

Ravi also wondered why the people of a particular community behave this way. He said he does not understand why these people are not serious about coronavirus infection and suspected that someone is encouraging them from behind to behave this way. He said that this looks like a pre-planned incident and sought action even if Zameer Ahmed Khan is involved. He recollected that similar incident had happened at Sadiq Palya sometime back.