L. A. Ravi Subramanya | |
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Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 2008 | |
Preceded by | K. Chandrashekhar |
Constituency | Basavanagudi |
Personal details | |
Born | Lakya Anantharamaiah Ravi Subramanya 20 May 1958 Chikmagalur,Karnataka,India |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Relatives | Tejasvi Surya (nephew) |
Occupation | Politician |
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] [5] He is married to Manjula Ravi Subramanya. [6] 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. [7]
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. [8] 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. [9] None of those arrested were the employees named by Surya. [10] 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.” [11]