Defending Mamata Banerjee to exiting TMC: Jawhar Sircar since R G Kar storm hit the party

Here are some of his posts on X since then on the R G Kar case and related issues such as women’s safety and burden on junior doctors:

August 14: “We all want Justice! Guilty must be punished severely — No compromise, no politics on women’s safety| We are with you.”

August 15: “We must take an oath today — to ensure she is always safe, secure and achieves her dream! Jai Hind!”

August 15: “A political party’s goons attacked RG Kar Hospital after midnight — seriously injured policemen on duty: don’t they have wife, kids? Everyone knows that the very heinous rape and murder case of the intern being investigated by CBI — then why this vandalism?”

August 15: “Nurse Raped, Killed On Way Home from Uttarakhand. Body Found 9 Days Later In Uttar Pradesh. As Horrendous as an Intern’s Ghastly Rape & Murder! Any Attack on Any Woman is Intolerable!”

August 16: “Would CM demand sternest of punishment for rapist/killer — if she’s ‘covering up’? YES, there’s anger on heinous crime & women safety AND educated middle class hate a CM of subalterns! Principal RG Kar failed! Rejected pol parties inciting trouble thru rumours, fake news, funds.”

August 16 (sharing a report by the National Taskforce on Mental Health and Well-being of Medical Students and tagging his party’s X handle): “RG Kar is a Wake Up Call! This 150 page Report says Students/Interns + Junior Doctors Face Same Terrible Workin Condition All Over India. Centre + States Must Implement this Report AND, Introduce Scheme for Wellbeing & Security of Junior Doctors.”

August 18: “Alt News confirms that on 14th Aug night, rowdies did NOT touch Chest Department Seminar in RG Kar Hospital — the crime scene. I am disturbed like all. I do not support ex Principal. But stick to facts. I DO NOT support Police Questions on Free Speech.”

August 20: “Kolkata Rape is just a WakeUp Call for what is happening — Every Where! Hope Supreme Court Orders on Kolkata RG Kar Hospital is the TURNING POINT in women’s safety!”

September 2: “All guilty in Abhaya’ terrible rape-murder in RG Kar Hospital deserve exemplary punishment. Principal + all who failed must suffer. Report says 1,551 Gangrape +Murder in India in 2017-22, ie 5 per week. 1500 cases yet to be charged! Justice must be Fast.”

September 2: “CBI arrests former R G Kar Medical College principal Dr Sandip Ghosh for ‘financial misconduct’. Finally! Good. It was State Govt that set up SIT enquiry into this corruption! But, what’s happening to RG Kar Rape-Murder investigation?”

September 6: “Woman raped on busy footpath in Ujjain. Passersby shoot videos instead of helping her. That’s the difference with Kolkata and West Bengal!”

On Sunday, Sircar highlighted his frustration over the lack of action against corruption in his resignation letter to Banerjee. “I just cannot accept some things, like corrupt officers (or doctors) getting prime and top postings … In all my years, I have not seen such anger and total no-confidence against the government, even when it says something correct or factual,” he said.

Sircar added, “I have suffered patiently for a month since the terrible incident at RG Kar Hospital, and was hoping for your direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors, in the old style of Mamata Banerjee. It has not happened and whatever punitive steps that government is taking now are too little and quite late.”