‘No reply received’: Mamata Banerjee writes second letter to PM Modi seeking ‘stringent’ law on rape
The Trinamool Congress chief first wrote to the prime minister on August 22 on the ‘regular and increasing occurrence of rape cases throughout the country’.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second time seeking “stringent central legislation” with “exemplary punishment” for rape.
The Trinamool Congress chief first wrote to the prime minister on August 22 on the “regular and increasing occurrence of rape cases throughout the country” in light of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was found dead at the medical institute on August 9. The incident sparked protests across the country.
On Thursday, Banerjee said she was yet to receive a reply from the prime minister on the “sensitive” matter.
The West Bengal chief minister said she received a reply from the Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi, which barely addressed the gravity of the issue raised in the letter.
“I am of the thought that the seriousness of the subject and its relevance to the society have not been adequately appreciated while sending out this generic reply,” she said. “Not only so, I would also refer to some of the initiatives in the area that our state has already taken which appears to have been overlooked in the reply.”
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