Under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Trinamool Congress today questioned demands for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's resignation. The ruling party in West Bengal said no demands for the Chief Minister's exit are made when such incidents take place in other states and claimed that calls for Ms Banerjee's resignation are an expression of patriarchy.
"There have been so many incidents in so many places. Why the demand for the resignation of the only woman Chief Minister of the country, who won three successive elections? No demands for the resignation of any male Chief Minister for incidents in others places. That is how patriarchy is," Bengal minister Chandrima Bhattacharya told the media this morning.
The Trinamool also hit out at Nabanna Abhijan, a protest march announced by students' organisation to demand justice for the 31-year-old doctor killed in the chilling August 9 incident. The march to the state secretariat, due tomorrow, is an attempt to create chaos in the name of students' protest, Ms Bhattacharya said.