Kolkata Rape And Murder Case: Mamata Banerjee Calls Jawhar Sircar, Urges Him to Reconsider Rajya Sabha Resignation

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has reportedly dialed TMC MP Jawhar Sircar and urged him to reassess his decision to resign from the party’s Rajya Sabha seat. Sircar, on Sunday, declared that he would resign as the party’s Rajya Sabha member in the wake of the Kolkata rape and murder.

In a letter to Mamata Banerjee, Jawhar Sircar announced his resignation from the Rajya Sabha following the rape and murder of a health care provider at Kolkata’s RG Kar Clinic. He also urged the TMC chief to “save the state.”

He further added that he would shuttle to Delhi to submit his resignation to Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar. In keeping with an India For the time being report, citing sources, after Sircar’s decision, Mamata Banerjee most often which is most often often called him and urged him to reassess his decision to quit as a TMC Rajya Sabha member.

Sircar also wrote that he had thought Mamata Banerjee would interfere in the “old Mamata style.”

“I thought you're ready to interfere in the continuing movement in the old Mamata style, but I did now not see it,” he said adding that ongoing agitation of doctors became against the “unchecked overbearing attitude of the favoured few and the corrupt”.

TMC MP Jawhar Sircar Says He’ll Resign Over RG Kar Horror, Corruption

Inside of the letter, Sircar said he became an increasing selection of “disillusioned” with the state government since it seemed “quite unconcerned” about corruption and “strong-arm tactics” of a a part of leaders.

Terming the protests over the doctor’s death spontaneous, the retired IAS officer said he had now not seen “such angst and total no-self belief” against a government, even when it became saying things that were correct or factual.

“The first purpose of joining as an MP, without any direct involvement in party politics, became that it offered a brilliant forum to carry on the struggle against the autocratic and communal politics of the BJP and its Prime Minister. To that extent, I've some satisfaction and my a few interventions in parliament…,” he said in the letter.

Sircar said that in 2022, a year after he joined the TMC, he became “quite stunned” to peer the “open evidence of corruption” that former education minister Partha Chatterjee had indulged in.

“I made a public statement that corruption should be tackled by the party and government, but I became heckled by senior leaders in the party. I did now not resign then as I had hoped which that you're going to have the capacity to carry on your public campaign against ‘cut money’ and corruption which you had started a year earlier,” he said.

The former bureaucrat said that he became persuaded by well-wishers to stay an MP to “carry on the battle” against “a regime or not it truly is the greatest ever threat to Indian democracy and civil liberties”.

“Though I carried on my task in parliament with fervour, I became an increasing selection of disillusioned as the state government seemed quite unconcerned about corruption and the increasing strong-arm tactics of a a part of leaders,” he said.