The TMC which has been facing the heat over its alleged poor handling of the RG Kar case has been in an uncomfortable position lately as few party leaders have made contentious statements against the protesting doctors
Amid the continuing protests by junior doctors against the RG Kar rape and murder case, several Trinamool Congress leaders have made controversial statements against the ruling party. Some have even countered the protesting doctors asking them to return to their duties. These comments have put the ruling party in an uncomfortable situation.
In view of this All India Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee appealed to his party’s public representatives and activists to refrain from making any harsh comments against doctors and prominent people of civil society.
Taking to ‘X’, Abhishek Banerjee wrote, “Public representatives across party lines need to be more HUMBLE and SYMPATHETIC. I urge everyone in @AITCofficial not to speak ill of anyone from the MEDICAL FRATERNITY OR CIVIL SOCIETY. Everyone has the right to protest and express themselves— This is what sets West Bengal apart from other BJP-ruled states.”
“We have wholeheartedly fought against the BULLDOZER MODEL AND OPPRESSION TACTICS of politics. Now is the time for constructive actions to ensure such horrific incidents are not repeated. Bengal must stand united in this fight and not stop until the perpetrators are punished and an ANTI-RAPE Time Bound law is enacted by both the states and Union government,” Banerjee added, in an apparent dig at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh.
It should be noted that Abhishek Banerjee had not initially commented on the RG rape and murder case. Following this, he strongly condemned the incident during the meeting of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad at Kolkata’s Mayo Road on August 28. Banerjee even claimed that he will raise the demand for a strict anti-rape legislation in the Parliament. He has also extended his support to the movement launched in demand for justice in the RG Kar rape and murder case.
The TMC which has been facing the heat over its alleged poor handling of the RG Kar case has been in an uncomfortable position lately as few party leaders have made contentious statements against the protesting doctors.
“I will enter your homes, take perverse photographs of your mothers and sister, and hang them on your walls,” TMC leader Atish Sarkar was quoted as saying by BJP’s national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari. Sarkar has been suspended by the ruling party following his remarks.
Earlier, TMC MP Arup Chakraborty had made a contentious statement against the protesting doctors.
“In the name of the movement, you may go home or go about with your boyfriend. If a patient dies because of your strike and public anger falls on you, we will not save you,” Chakraborty was quoted as saying by BJP’s Shehzad Poonawala.
