Member of Parliament from the BJP, Shobha Karandlaje had claimed that the Tablighi Jamaat attendees spat at the Belgavi Hospital staff and misbehaved with the doctors. The claim has been debunked and is found to be false.
On Monday, Shobha Karandlaje took to twitter to claim that people from Belgavi, who were quarantined after they were found to be the attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat Congregation, were misbehaving and spitting at the hospital staff while they were being shifted to the hospital. However, SB Bommannahalli, the Deputy Commissioner of Belgavi denied any such claims.
The Claim Was Found to be False
SB Bommannahalli denied the claim of the Member of Parliament by saying that no such incident had taken place and people who were quarantined never misbehaved with the hospital staff. Shobha Karandlaje tweeted a video of people dancing in what looks like an isolation ward and captioned it,
“70 people from Belagavi attended Nizamuddin Markaz, among them 8 tested positive, rest of the results yet to come. In quarantine wards, Tablighis are misbehaving with our health workers, dancing and spitting everywhere. The nation wants to know the intentions of Tablighi Jamaat!”
Dr. Vinay Bishop, Director of Belgavi Institute of Medical Sciences, revealed that there were only 33 attendees of the Jamaat were admitted and out of them, only 3 have tested positive. In a detailed response, the Doctor said that after the results, the negative tested patients were discharged from the hospital and were kept at a quarantine facility outside the hospital.
Speaking about the video, the note written by the doctor says that the video might have been around the time when the negatively tested patients were separated from the 3 patients. On the claim that positive tested patients are roaming freely in the hospital, the doctor set aside the claim as false. They have been shifted to isolation and are under medication. They are under constant under observation, the Dr. Vinay clarified.
Shobha Karandlaje’s claim comes right after Chief Minister Yediyurappa’s warning where he categorically stated the Muslim community should not be blamed for a stray incident. Belgavi has reported seven coronavirus cases out of which 3 are linked with the Tablighi Jamaat Congregation.
