Anti-TJ remarks in viral video land GSVM principal in trouble

Kanpur: The principal of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial medical college landed in trouble after a video with recording of her alleged controversial remarks against Tablighi Jamaat patients went viral on social media.
In the video, principal Dr Arati Lalchandani is shown making objectionable remarks against Jamaat patients, calling them terrorists and saying they should be dumped in jail and thrashed with batons.
“They are terrorists and should be dumped in jail but, we are giving them VIP treatment and that too at the cost of our doctors, paramedical staff and others who will fell ill because of them. We are paying hotel bills, spending on medicines, PPE kits and food for them. The Union government is spending Rs 2,000 to 2,500 on one PPE kit. It is because of them that we will go into financial emergency,” Lalchandani is heard saying.
TOI could not verify the authenticity of the video.
In the 5-minute video, she also allegedly says that the state government is doing appeasement politics and is hence spending so much money on Tablighi Jamaatis admitted to Lala Lajpat Rai hospital after Covid-19 outbreak in March.
She further complains that her doctors and medical staff is being exposed to unnecessary risk due to Jamaatis and added that the district administration was not listening to her and she
would write to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan.
“I confronted the CMO as 80 ambulances were engaged in shifting Jamaatis. The GDP of India will dip and there will be economic emergency, and the reason for this will be these 30 crore,” she said.
When TOI contacted Dr Lalchandani for her comments, she said the video was two months old and edited to malign her image. The objectionable comments have been added by a journalist to blackmail and extort money from her, she said.
“I will lodge an FIR. This video was made at my home when I was complaining about the bad behaviour of Jamaatis who were harassing health workers,” she said.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member and former MP Subhashini Ali demanded demanded a probe and immediate strict action against Dr Lalchandani.
“I demand that if the video is found authentic, she must be dismissed and prosecuted,” said Ali.