West Bengal under TMC is anti-women, anti-youth, anti-democracy: JP Nadda

New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): Lashing out at the West Bengal government, BJP President and Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Sunday said that the state under the regime of Trinamool Congress has become anti-women, anti-youth and anti-democracy.
Hitting out at CM Mamata Banerjee, Nadda said that she has failed the people of the state as she has been presiding over an administration that has looted with impunity.
Taking it to a social media post on X, JP Nadda wrote, "West Bengal under TMC is ANTI-WOMEN, ANTI-YOUTH and ANTI-DEMOCRACY. The Chief Minister has failed the people of the state, presiding over an administration which has looted with impunity. The iron grip has clearly rusted and rusted terribly."

West Bengal under TMC is ANTI-WOMEN, ANTI-YOUTH and ANTI-DEMOCRACY.
The Chief Minister has failed the people of the state, presiding over an administration which has looted with impunity. The iron grip has clearly rusted and rusted terribly.

— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) August 18, 2024

In the latest development, the Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the rape and murder of a doctor in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the case on August 20.
The body of the post-graduate trainee doctor was found in the RG Kar Hospital's seminar room on August 9. The Kolkata Police arrested a civic volunteer the next day in this connection.
Calcutta High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the investigation, after expressing a lack of satisfaction with the Kolkata Police.
On Friday, two lawyers practising in the Supreme Court and a doctor from Telangana wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud urging him to take auto moto cognizance of the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
On August 9, a postgraduate trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered on duty at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, which has led to nationwide strikes and civil societies and doctors across States protested against the incident and demanded severe punishment to the accused persons and sought safety and security for themselves. (ANI)