TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar resigns over R.G. Kar rape-murder protest

Jawhar Sircar resignation news: TMC MP Jawhar Sircar resigns over R.G. Kar Hospital incident, criticises CM Mamata Banerjee's handling of the situation.

Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday (September 8, 2024) wrote to Trinamool Congress chairperson and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announcing his decision to resign as MP from the Upper House over the rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital and related corruption at the hospital.

The development marks the first major resignation from the Trinamool Congress which has been facing the heat of protest for almost a month after the horrific crime at the State-run hospital.

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“I have suffered patiently for a month since the terrible incident at R.G. 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 the ever punitive steps that government is taking now are too little and quite late,” the MP said in the letter.

Mr. Sircar who is also a retired IAS officer said that in the all the years, “I have not seen such angst and total-no-confidence against the government, even when it says something correct or factual” and added that “the present spontaneous outpouring of public anger is against this unchecked overbearing attitude of the favoured few and the corrupt”.

The former Prasar Bharati CEO who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha three years ago said that the “mainstream of the agitation is non-political and a spontaneous one and it is not correct to take a confrontational stand.”

“They want no politics: they want justice and punishment. Let us analyse frankly and realise that the movement is as much for Abhaya as it is against the state government and the party. This calls for course correction immediately or else communal forces will capture this state,” Mr. Sircar said.