BJP ex-MP abuses BMO, audio clip goes viral

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, May 8

An audio clip of former MP and vice-president of the state BJP Kirpal Parmar, in which he was allegedly abusing the Block Medical Officer (BMO) of Fatehpur, has gone viral.

In the clip, the former MP abused the BMO on the plea that the Covid centre, set up by privately managed Surya Hospital in Fatehpur, was not following the norms. The BMO was heard pleading that it was not he who had selected the hospital as a Covid centre. The decision was taken by the district administration.

Probe begins

Kangra DC Rakesh Prajapati said a probe had begun. The matter had also been taken up with Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. Medical officers are pressing for the registration of an FIR against the former MP. The ball is now in the court of the CM.

The Himachal Pradesh Medical Officers Association, in a press note here, demanded an FIR against Kirpal Parmar. The association said doctors were working under pressure. Parmar had blamed the BMO for the poor arrangements in the private hospital. He had also threatened that he would get the office of the BMO burnt, the association said.

Parmar said the audio clip had been edited. He said once a party worker had gone to the hospital for treatment. There was a single entrance in the hospital. The worker was operated upon in the hospital but got infected with the virus.

“I had asked the BMO to find out if the arrangements in the hospital were proper or not. But he started justifying his action. I lost temper and used only one objectionable word against the BMO, which was made public, not the whole conversation,” he said.

Sources said the district administration had sought a report from ground officials regarding the Covid facility at Surya Hospital. In the report, the officials found the arrangements satisfactory. The officials had also maintained in their report that there were two separate entrances to the hospital for the Covid ward and general hospital.

Kangra DC Rakesh Prajapati said a probe had begun. The sources said the matter had also been taken up with Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. Medical officers are pressing for the registration of an FIR against the former MP. The ball is now in the court of the CM.