‘No woman safe in Bengal under Mamata Banerjee regime,’ says BJP leader Pratima Bhowmik

Pratima Bhowmik alleged that the Bengal administration and the police tried to pass off the woman doctor’s murder as a suicide.

Bhowmik criticised the Opposition INDIA bloc for not ‘speaking out’ on the R G Kar incident. (Photo: X/ @PratimaBhoumik)

Former Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik on Sunday demanded the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the alleged rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

Likening the Trinamool Congress-led government to the Taliban, Bhowmik said in Agartala, “No one has got freedom of speech in West Bengal. The regime in West Bengal is functioning in Talibani style led by Trinamool Congress-backed goons. The government and the police have no role… As people have awakened, Mamata Banerjee should resign from her post. No woman is safe in Bengal till she (Banerjee) is there.”

Bhowmik alleged that the Bengal administration and the police tried to pass off the doctor’s murder as suicide and former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh was neither terminated from his post nor suspended but was transferred to another big institute.

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Criticising the Opposition INDIA bloc for not ‘speaking out’ on the R G Kar incident, the BJP leader said, “They always work for a community… they always prefer vote bank politics.”

Meanwhile, Tripura BJP spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said party worker Ashish Pal succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. He was allegedly attacked by CPI(M) cadres outside a counting centre on Monday.

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