India, Oct. 28 -- The acting chief medical superintendent of a government hospital here has been suspended and booked after he was seen in a video purportedly making an objectionable remark against the Uttar Pradesh government during a conversation with political workers over hospital mismanagement.

This started on Saturday when members of several political parties reached the Birsinghpur Community Health Centre to raise concerns about the alleged lack of medicines and absentee doctors.

During the exchange, acting chief medical superintendent (CMS) Bhaskar Prasad allegedly told the complainants, "Don't burn my effigy, burn the government's effigy," after they threatened to stage a protest against him and the chief medical officer.

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