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DMK sympathizer masquerading as ‘neutral’ tech entrepreneur caught peddling half-truths and fake data again

April 24, 2021
Vallavaraayan

Suresh Sambandam, the CEO of a company named ‘Kissflow’ and the unofficial brand ambassador of the DMK, who was recently caught peddling half-truths and lies (check here and here), is at it once again. This time, the ‘tech entrepreneur’ has fudged data about the number of doctors available in different states of India to its population.

In a tweet, the DMK sympathizer had shared a picture which claimed that the ratio of number of people and number of doctors for Tamil Nadu was 253:1 while for Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh it was 2092:1 and 3767:1 respectively, in order to take a jibe at the two states which are currently under BJP rule. The picture had watermark of one Arockia Edwin, the DMK Union Secretary of Nanguneri East.

“We better celebrate this achievement that happened because of last 50 years. If anyone speaks ill about Tamilnadu slap this in their face. #dreamtn @dreamtamilnadu”, he said in his tweet.

According to the latest data available (31st December 2020), there are 148,216 registered doctors in Tamil Nadu while Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have 71,348 and 89286 registered doctors respectively.

When weighed against population, the ratio of number of doctors to the state population turns out to be 1:525 for Tamil Nadu, 1:895 for Gujarat and 1:2664 for Uttar Pradesh.

Both Tamil Nadu and Gujarat fulfil the doctor population ratio of 1:1000 prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is to be remembered that Uttar Pradesh came under the rule of BJP only in 2017.

It would be impossible to come up with the number as claimed by Suresh Sambandam except if he is part of a Whatsapp group of Murasoli readers.

Many data enthusiasts on Twitter too called out the fake numbers put out by the DMK sympathizer.

This is not the first time Suresh Sambandam has been caught peddling lies. Earlier, he exposed his shallow knowledge on history, politics and economy in an interview with ‘Neeya Naana’ Gopinath to Behindwoods YouTube channel. Very recently he had peddled false news about the farmer empowerment laws where he said that Minimum Support Price would be scrapped and that key farm items would be removed from the ‘Essential Commodities’ which was busted by The Commune.

Now once again, Suresh Sambandam has proved himself to be nothing more than a Murasoli reader who is wise enough to fabricate data in order to portray DMK as the pioneer of development politics.