There is a lot of uproar after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. Doctors are continuously striking and protesting. At the same time, political rhetoric is also continuing. The BJP, which is in the opposition in Bengal, has strongly opposed this. The saffron party has surrounded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party Trinamool Congress. TMC MP Mahua Moitra has also retaliated. She said that it is absolutely wrong for the opposition BJP to accuse Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and elected women representatives of being ‘dumb dolls’.
Mahua on Thursday denied allegations of a cover-up in the case, saying, “This story that is going around that the state government and, above all, the chief minister and all of us who are elected representatives are involved in some kind of systematic cover-up is completely false and untrue. The chief minister was in Jhargram Medinipur when the incident took place. When she was told about it, she immediately spoke to the girl’s family. On her return to Kolkata, she went to them and within 12 hours the police arrested the prime suspect based on CCTV evidence.”
Mamata blames CPI(M) and BJP
Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blamed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the nightlong vandalism at the government RG Hospital. Accusing the CPI(M) and the BJP of involvement in the Wednesday-Thursday midnight vandalism, she announced that she would take out a march from Moulali in central Kolkata to Dharmatala against the violence. In the vandalism, medical infrastructure in the emergency building was damaged and all CCTV cameras were destroyed.
Nationwide strike on 17th
The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) has called for a 12-hour Bengal bandh on Friday to protest the attack on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as well as the doctors protesting on the campus over the brutal rape and murder case. The doctors have called for a nationwide strike on August 17.
Monsters must be hanged: Genelia Deshmukh
Bollywood actress Genelia Deshmukh has advocated capital punishment for those responsible for the doctor rape-murder. On her x account, Deshmukh wrote, ‘The monsters must be hanged. My soul shivers just reading about what the victim suffered. A woman, a lifeguard who was on duty, had to face this horror in a seminar hall. My heart goes out to the family and her loved ones – I can’t even imagine how they are coping with this tragedy.