Mr Bose stated the medical fraternity stood as a one-man military towards Covid.
In caustic feedback directed on the West Bengal authorities after the rape and homicide of a trainee physician at a Kolkata hospital and the following vandalism within the campus, Governor CV Ananda Bose has stated “vandals and scandals” are marring civic life within the state.
Mincing no phrases in a wide-ranging interview with NDTV on Friday, the West Bengal governor held Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee chargeable for the state of affairs within the state, claimed ladies medical college students have instructed him that their households need them to go away the career, and stated it was disheartening that such incidents had been going down in a land the place one in all its most illustrious sons had spoken of the thoughts being with out concern.
Mr Bose additionally stated that he has opened a house within the Raj Bhavan, named after the 31-year-old trainee physician who was raped and killed on the RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital final week. The girl has been given the identify ‘Abhaya’ (fearless) and the governor stated college students who really feel threatened will likely be valued company on the ‘Abhaya Residence’.
To a query on the politics that has come to encompass the dealing with of the investigation and the protests by medical doctors and medical college students, the governor stated, “Scandals and vandals are marring the civic lifetime of Bengal. I used to be interacting with some medical college students. They instructed me, ‘Please ship us from the concern psychosis. Please give us safety. We now have no safety contained in the campus and now there isn’t any safety outdoors.’ That’s the wailing of the youth, notably these within the medical career.”
“A number of the lady college students instructed me they’ve nowhere to go, they don’t have any safety. ‘Our mother and father are asking us to go away the career, give again the bond cash. Come again. Life is extra vital than this,’ they instructed me,” he stated, including {that a} lady was afraid the “goons” would observe her to her rural posting.
‘What Bengal Thinks As we speak…’
Stating that youth are neither creations of the previous nor custodians of the current, Mr Bose stated they’re the creators of the longer term and it was distressing to see them having to plead for his or her safety like this.
“What occurs on the road within the identify of politics is none of my enterprise. However the reality stays that there’s a rising concern in Bengal’s society. There may be violence in all places. And all that is occurring in Bengal, about which Gopalkrishna Gokhale as soon as stated, ‘What Bengal thinks at present, India thinks tomorrow’. Is that this the identical Bengal about which Rabindranath Tagore stated, ‘The place the thoughts is with out concern and the top is held excessive’? Democracy is plummeting into mobocracy. That’s the distressing spectacle that we see round us. That is what worries me as a governor,” he stated.
Abhaya Residence
The governor stated he has religion within the CBI, which is investigating the case, and detailed a three-pronged strategy that he has taken to make sure that the scholars’ grievances are addressed.
He stated he has utilised his powers beneath Article 167 of the Structure and given directions to the chief minister, other than taking over the matter with the Centre.
The third measure, an interim one, is the opening of the ‘Abhaya Residence’ at Raj Bhavan, the governor’s official residence.
“Any pupil who feels threatened can come right here. They are going to be honoured company, valued company of the governor. No matter different long-term measures are to be taken, I’ve already taken up with the state authorities in addition to with the central authorities, together with ample laws guaranteeing safety for medicos and paramedics… All the things that’s attainable for confidence constructing will likely be performed,” Mr Bose emphasised.
President’s Rule?
Using wordplay and maintaining his playing cards near his chest whereas answering a query on the opposition’s demand for President’s Rule in West Bengal, the governor stated, “Demand is demand, let’s have a look at what the provision is. As governor, I want to be circumspect on such points. The Structure has many choices. I reserve my choices at this second… I don’t wish to come out within the public area about what I will do subsequent beneath the Structure of India”.
‘Chief Minister Accountable 1st, 2nd and third’
Holding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee chargeable for what is going on in West Bengal, the Governor stated that whereas the cupboard has collective duty, the buck stops along with her.
“The cupboard has collective duty. No matter occurs within the state, the primary duty is that of the chief minister, the second duty is that of the chief minister and the third duty is that of the chief minister,” he stated.
Mr Bose insisted he has been getting frantic calls from medical professionals throughout India, who’ve instructed him they’re afraid.
“The medical fraternity stood as a one-man military towards Covid and saved this nation. We owe it to them. They do not deserve such remedy. It’s stated medicines can treatment ailments however solely a physician can treatment sufferers. That’s the significance of the medical fraternity, together with the paramedics. We can’t allow them to down,” he pressured.
