Last Updated on 16/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Mamata Banerjee is that strong leader whose simplicity is liked by the people and at whose fingertips the politics of West Bengal has been dancing for the last 23 years. But will the brutality done to the trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College prove to be a turning point for the politics of West Bengal?
69-year-old Mamata Banerjee is considered a political warrior by her supporters. It was Mamata who single-handedly wiped out the Left Front government that had been in power in West Bengal for 34 years. It was Mamata Banerjee whose massive opposition forced Tata to close down its Nano project and move from Bengal to Gujarat. The anti-land acquisition movements in Singur and Nandigram brought Mamata Banerjee to power.
Perhaps for the first time in the 13 years of Mamata government, an anti-government atmosphere is being created. Questions are being raised whether the brutality against the trainee doctor will prove to be a game changer in West Bengal politics, because Mamata Banerjee is surrounded from all sides on the rape and murder case of the doctor in Kolkata. On one hand, while the opposition is demanding her resignation by making the negligence of the administration an issue, on the other hand, her party leaders and allies are also attacking the Mamata government.
However, this is not the first time that the Bengal government is facing such embarrassment on an issue. Earlier also, be it the Sandeshkhali case or the Asansol violence, Mamata Banerjee has been on the backfoot. But despite these embarrassments, there was no difference in Mamata Banerjee’s political stature. Her party continued to register victory in these areas. In such a situation, the question arises whether this time Mamata will be able to prevent political damage from the allegations of the Kolkata rape case?
It is said that whenever Mamata Banerjee faces political difficulties, she emerges stronger than before. But this time the challenge before her is very tough. The brutality against the trainee doctor is being compared to the Nirbhaya case in Delhi. But the people of West Bengal are surprised by the attitude of the Mamata government on this sensitive incident.
People are furious. West Bengal police is accused of adopting an evasive attitude even in such a gruesome incident, due to which the CBI had to be handed over the responsibility of investigation. But on the very first day of the CBI investigation, there was a ruckus at midnight. At midnight thousands of people attacked the medical college.
Questions arose as to where did a crowd of thousands come from in the darkness of the night? Was this attack a conspiracy to destroy evidence? Was some big truth going to come out in the CBI investigation? Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee has said that the BJP and the Left parties have got this attack done by outsiders.
Questions are being raised whether Mamata Banerjee’s handing over the case to the CBI amid allegations of negligence in the investigation is a sign of her waning power? Mamata Banerjee has consistently opposed central investigative agencies like CBI-ED and often described them as a tool of the Modi government to harass the opposition.
This is perhaps the first time since becoming the chief minister in 2011 that the TMC chief has had to publicly admit the shortcomings of the state police force. The question is whether this is due to the anger of West Bengal and the country over the Kolkata rape and murder case, which experts are considering as the new Singur incident of Bengal politics.
The hospital administration, that is, the then principal Sandeep Ghosh, the same Sandeep Ghosh who was accused of misleading the case from the very beginning. Why did the Mamata government reject his resignation and make him the principal of another college? But even more serious questions were raised on the silence of TMC leaders.
TMC has 29 MPs in the Lok Sabha, out of which 11 MPs are women, including Mahua Moitra, Kakoli Ghosh and Dola Sen. Despite this, Trinamool Congress MPs remained silent on the Kolkata rape and murder case. It took 5 days for a vocal MP like Mahua Moitra to give her first reaction on the Kolkata rape and murder case, whereas Mahua Moitra had cornered the Modi government on the social media platform within an hour on the Hindenburg report.
Since August 10, Mahua Moitra has tweeted 20 times on the Hindenburg report and only once on the Kollam murder case, that too after widespread criticism. This silence has sharpened the opposition’s attacks on the Mamata government. The remaining task was completed by the uproar at RG Kar Hospital at midnight.
Fingers are being pointed directly at the Kolkata Police. Along with the BJP, the students protesting outside the hospital are also saying that the police did not try to stop the rioters. Whatever is happening in Kolkata, the Trinamool Congress is facing the anger of the public. When TMC leader Shantanu Sen reached the hospital after doing RG, slogans of ‘Go Back’ were raised.
Mamata Banerjee said that a protest march will be taken out in all the blocks on August 17. On August 18, there will be a demonstration in all the blocks and on August 19, on the day of Rakshabandhan, a program will be organized demanding death penalty for the culprits. But BJP is demanding the resignation of Mamata Banerjee.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)