Mamata Banerjee has blamed the Left-BJP nexus for spreading unrest in West Bengal.
Kolkata:
Firestorm over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Trinamool Congress today questioned demands for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's resignation. The ruling party in West Bengal said there was no demand for the Chief Minister's ouster when such incidents took place in other states and claimed that the demand for Ms Banerjee's resignation was an expression of paternalism.
“There have been so many incidents in so many places. Why was there a demand for the resignation of the country's only woman chief minister, who won three elections in a row? Incidents in other places did not demand the resignation of any male chief minister. Gone.” Such is patriarchy,” Bengal minister Chandrima Bhattacharya told the media this morning.
The Trinamool also attacked Nibbana Abhijan, a protest march called by the students' organization to demand justice for the 31-year-old doctor killed in the August 9 chilling incident. Ms. Bhattacharya said that tomorrow's march to the state secretariat is an attempt to create chaos in the name of student protest.
“BJP-ABVP is a conspiracy to create riots. There is a conspiracy to shoot by criminals in police uniform. Exams tomorrow. Can students do it? They are doing vulture politics,” he said. “, he said.
“No permission has been sought from the police for such protests. Protests can happen but they have to take permission and they should be held peacefully at designated places,” he said.
These remarks come at a time when large-scale protests are taking place in and around Kolkata over the RG car incident, with various sections of society taking to the streets daily. After this incident, the opposition has demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Banerjee, who also holds the Home and Health portfolios. Ms Banerjee hit back at the opposition, accusing the BJP and the Left of conspiring to foment unrest in the state, and led a rally demanding justice for the rape victims.
Asserting that everyone in the Trinamool wanted punishment for the culprits in the doctor's rape and murder case, Ms. Bhattacharya questioned why there was still no significant progress in the case after the CBI took over the investigation. has not done “The CBI has not been able to shed any light on the case so far. The Kolkata police have arrested the accused but the CBI is yet to file a charge sheet. All the rallies demanding justice have been held at the CGO complex (where (where the CBI office is located in Kolkata) should be concluded as the state government is no longer responsible for the investigation.”
Trinamool releases “Need Bodies” video.
Trinamool Congress released two videos in a press meet this morning. NDTV has not confirmed their authenticity. In the videos, several men are heard saying “we need bodies”. Trinamool leader J Prakash Majumdar alleged that the BJP was planning to spread unrest during the Nibanna rally tomorrow. “The BJP leadership has been told that unless there is an incident like Nandigram and the dead bodies turn up, the tide will not turn in the BJP's favour,” he said. The Trinamool leader was referring to the 2007 Nandigram violence in Bengal under the previous Left government in which 14 people died. Mr. Majumdar alleged that there was a plot to fire on the protesters at yesterday's rally.
Earlier Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly. BJP's Swaindu Adhikari said the police were spreading rumors to disrupt the protest.
“Mamata Police Deploys Dreadful 'Toolkit' To Dissuade Protesters From Marching To Nabana, Where They Seek Justice For RG Kar PGT Female Doctor.” The West Bengal government has clearly been shaken by the viral call for 'Nibna Abhijan' in August. 27,” he said in a post on X.