“If you have courage, resign”: Sukanta Majumdar challenges Mamata Banerjee over RG Kar case

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 5 (ANI): Union Minister and BJP State President Sukanta Majumdar has challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resign over the Kolkata rape case, vowing to do the same if she does.

“We told her (Mamata Banerjee) that I am a Central Minister from this state. There has been a rape in this state; if you have the courage, then resign, and I will resign too,” he told ANI on Wednesday.

His remarks come following Banerjee’s demand on Tuesday for the resignations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and the chief ministers of all states where incidents of rape and sexual abuse were recently reported.

Majumdar also claimed that the Trinamool Congress is trying to protect former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, against whom the most allegations have been made over the Kolkata woman doctor rape and murder case.

“Mamata Banerjee is protecting Sandip Ghosh, and he has been appointed to one position after another. When he was removed from the position of Principal at RG Kar, he was sent to National Medical College. The students at National Medical College did not let him enter, so he was then appointed as Officer on Special Duty at the Health Department. The party is trying to protect the person against whom most allegations have been leveled,” Majumdar told ANI.

The brutal rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor in Kolkata has triggered protests in West Bengal and across the country.

The former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, has been sent to 8-day police custody. The next hearing of the case will be on September 10.

The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr Sandip Ghosh, along with three others, over alleged corruption and financial misconduct at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday.

The West Bengal Health Department has suspended RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s former principal, Sandip Ghosh.

The woman doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.