TMC’s Jawhar Sircar quits Rajya Sabha over Bengal’s ‘faulty handling’ of Kolkata rape-murder case
The former bureaucrat said he was also disillusioned by the alleged corruption in the state and the ‘strong-arm tactics’ of some Trinamool Congress leaders.
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Trinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday said he is resigning from the Rajya Sabha over alleged corruption in the West Bengal government and to protest against the “faulty handling” of the case pertaining to the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a Kolkata hospital in August.
In a letter to Trinamool Congress chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Sircar said that he had decided to also quit politics.
The retired bureaucrat said that he will formally submit his resignation to the Rajya Sabha chairperson soon.
Sircar’s decision to resign comes in the backdrop of widespread protests against the raped and murdered of the 31-year-old junior doctor at Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
The former Indian Administrative Service officer said that the protests were not just in support of the medic who was raped and murdered, but also against the state government and the ruling Trinamool Congress. “Let us analyse frankly and realise that the movement is as much for Abhaya [the name given to the victim by protestors] as it is against the state government and the party,” he said.
Sircar said that he maintained patience for a month since the incident because he was “hoping for your [Banerjee’s] direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors, in...
