Manas Dasgupta
NEW DELHI, Apr 4: In a shocking incident, a middle-aged man died in an ambulance because of negligent and arrogant behaviour of a person who claimed himself to be the brother of a local BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh.
A video that has gone viral on the social media showed that the path of an ambulance car was blocked by a private car left parked negligently on the road. The patient in the ambulance, meanwhile, died inside writhing in pain and the man who returned after some half-an-hour threatened the family members of the dead patient with dire consequences flaunting that he was the brother of a “big BJP leader” and the district magistrate and the police superintendent “worked at his instructions.”
The incident was of Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP leader has been accused of blocking a road with his unattended car resulting in the death of Suresh Chandra who was being rushed to a hospital in an ambulance. Family members of the patient have alleged that the BJP leader Umesh Mishra, threatened them with dire consequences when confronted on his negligent act.
Suresh Chandra who was admitted in a district hospital had complained of chest pain on Saturday and after examination doctors told the relatives that he had suffered a massive heart attack and referred him to a hospital in Lucknow. He was being rushed to the Lucknow hospital but the ambulance could not move for more than 30 minutes as the road was blocked by the WagonR car left unattended by its owner, and Suresh Chandra died in the ambulance writhing in pain. The BJP leader returned later and started hurling expletives in a fit of rage when confronted.
The video recorded by a bystander showed the man who identified himself as Umesh Mishra claiming to be the brother of BJP leader and Block Chief Ram Kinkar Pandey hurling abuses at the relative of the man who died because he questioned his civic sense in blocking the road with his parked car. Mishra was also heard threatening the man to be framed in false police cases because the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police “worked at his instructions” and that he would “finish him.” A few police personnel were also seen in the video present at the scene but none dared to make any move in the face of his flaunting power and raining abuses at a citizen. Mishra later left the spot in his car untouched by the police.
Incidentally, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a visit to Gujarat last year had stopped his convoy to make way for an ambulance but the gesture apparently has not gone down to the party cadre and their relatives.
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