NEW DELHI: Amidst ongoing protests over the rape and homicide of a trainee physician at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has denied allegations of a cover-up.
She responded to accusations from the opposition BJP, which criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee and elected feminine representatives, calling them “Gungi gudiya” (mute dolls).
Moitra defended the state authorities’s actions and emphasised that there isn’t a systematic cover-up within the case.
“The story that’s going round that the state authorities and most of all, the chief minister and all of us who’re elected representatives are indulging in some type of systematic cover-up is completely improper and incorrect.
The chief minister was in Jhargram Medinipur when the incident occurred. When she was knowledgeable about it she spoke to the household of the woman instantly. Upon her return to Kolkata, she went and visited them inside 12 hours the police arrested the prime suspect on the idea of CCTV proof,” Moitra mentioned.
Moitra highlighted that Mamata Banerjee, the one feminine CM in India, has constantly stood for ladies’s causes and criticized the political narrative that TMC representatives are “Gungi gudiya” (mute dolls).
Moitra’s response adopted remarks from Union Minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar.
Majumdar accused TMC ladies MPs of remaining silent on the case and prompt that the silence signifies potential foul play, alleging {that a} explicit TMC MP‘s nephew’s title has repeatedly surfaced in reference to the incident.
“Within the physician’s crew, many such subjects have come up of their WhatsApp group, some screenshots of this have additionally reached us like medicine, racket, intercourse racket…One TMC MP’s nephew’s title retains arising repeatedly. I do not know what the reality is, however one thing appears off as a result of regardless of so many ladies MPs from TMC, not a single one has spoken a lot after such a serious incident. Two TMC MPs and three MLAs are alumni of the identical medical school, but they appear to have been silenced, indicating that one thing is amiss,” Majumdar mentioned.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari (BJP) additionally took motion, writing to the Dwelling Secretary and Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, requesting the deployment of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces to stop additional destruction of proof at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital.
“I’ve written to the Hon’ble Dwelling Secretary; Ministry of Dwelling Affairs; Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla and Hon’ble Director, Central Bureau of Investigation, relating to the vandalism that happened at R G Kar Medical School and Hospital and requested them to deploy Central Armed Paramilitary Forces to stop additional destruction of proof at R G Kar,” Adhikari mentioned in a publish on X.
This request adopted vandalism on the hospital on Wednesday night time, the place a mob prompted harm to the protest web site, autos, and public property, prompting safety officers to intervene and disperse the group.
The Federation of Resident Medical doctors’ Affiliation (FORDA) introduced on Thursday that they’d resume their strike in protest of the incident. The strike resumes amidst nationwide outcry over the rape and homicide.
Former Delhi Fee for Girls chief Swati Maliwal additionally addressed the West Bengal chief minister in a letter, calling for extreme punishment for these accountable.
“The inhuman atrocities inflicted upon this younger girl have introduced disgrace upon humanity and triggered widespread protests throughout the nation. As somebody who has lengthy advocated for the safety of ladies’s rights, I’ve been following this case with shut consideration, and the extra I study, the deeper my revulsion grows,” Swati Maliwal wrote in her letter.
Banerjee alleged that the Left is colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) to create unrest in West Bengal. She commented on the vandalism at RG Kar Hospital, suggesting that the mob concerned have been BJP associates and claimed they’d no connection to the scholar motion.
“Left and Ram need to create unrest in Bengal and so they each have come collectively to do that,” she mentioned, referring to the occasions on the hospital. “The individuals who vandalized RG Kar Hospital yesterday and created this ruckus will not be linked to the scholar motion of RG Kar Medical School, they’re outsiders, I’ve seen as many movies, I’ve three movies as I can see, by which some persons are holding nationwide flags, they’re BJP folks and a few are DYFI are holding white and crimson flags,” CM Banerjee mentioned.
The RG Kar incident has additionally seen reactions and demonstrations from numerous medical fraternities. Medical doctors at Safdarjung Hospital and AIIMS in Delhi gathered to protest, and medical college students in Kolkata voiced their anger by protests.
Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan expressed his anger and concern on social media over the incident.
“Sure we have to evolve right into a society the place we ALL really feel equally secure. However that’s going to take a long time. It is going to hopefully occur with sensitizing and empowering our little kids. The following generations can be higher,” he wrote on his X account.
“We are going to get there. Finally. However what within the interim ? Proper now justice can be to place a tough cease to such atrocities. And the one approach to do this is a punishment so harsh that it scares the residing daylights out of such perpetrators. That is what we want. Maybe? I stand with the sufferer’s household in looking for justice for his or her daughter and I stand with all of the Medical doctors that have been attacked final night time,” his publish additional learn.
In the meantime, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Particular Crime Department in Kolkata has summoned 5 docs and hospital employees for questioning in relation to the RG Kar Hospital rape and homicide case.
The incident has sparked a nationwide response from medical fraternities and public outrage.
The post-graduate trainee physician was discovered lifeless within the seminar corridor of RG Kar Medical School and Hospital on August 9 with the sufferer’s household alleging rape and homicide.
