Trinamool leader Jawhar Sircar on Sunday announced his resignation as Rajya Sabha MP as a mark of protest against the recent rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College, and the corruption in the state governance.
In a two-page letter to Trinamool chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, Sircar stated: “The present spontaneous outpouring of public anger is against the unchecked overbearing attitude of a favoured few and the corrupt. In all my years, I have not seen such angst and total no-confidence against the government, even when it says something correct or factual. I have suffered patiently for a month since the terrible incident at RG Kar Hospital, and was hoping for your direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors, in the old style of Banerjee. It has not happened and whatever punitive steps that the government is taking now are too little, too late”.
“I am quitting as MP primarily because of WB government’s faulty handling of the most spontaneous public movement following the terrible rape-murder case at RG Kar Hospital. Quitting politics- to be with the people in their struggle for justice. My commitment to values unchanged,” Sircar posted on X.
