NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor on Wednesday alleged the state authorities led by CM Mamata Banerjee of ‘failing’ to hold out its duties within the RG Kar incident and urged the state to personal up for its fallout.
The governor, who has typically been at loggerheads with Banerjee additionally took a veiled dig on the chief minister’s ‘Dandiya dance’ at Tuesday’s Durga Puja Carnival and drew parallels to Roman emperor Nero, who “performed the fiddle whereas Rome burned”.
“Festivities of Durga Puja shouldn’t be embellished with the dance of demise. Nero, they are saying, performed the fiddle whereas Rome was burning. Is historical past repeating itself in West Bengal? Who’s attempting to mimic? It’s mentioned, ‘I’m the Roman Emperor, subsequently above grammar’. Is there anybody who says, ‘I’m the ruler, subsequently above the legislation’?” governor Bose requested.
On the RG Kar deadlock, the governor mentioned the Raj Bhavan had already sought intervention below provisions of the Structure.
Additional, Bose alleged that the arrest of a police officer and a senior physician within the case once more pointed to “institutional criminality“, rampant in varied sectors of the West Bengal state authorities.
“It’s the responsibility of the state authorities, significantly of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, to guard the lives and properties of the residents.
“Right here (in West Bengal), the federal government has failed to hold out its primary duties. Who ought to personal up? If the chief minister is the chief (head of the administration), the reply lies in itself,” Bose informed information company PTI in an interview in relation to the stalemate.
On the allegation that the state authorities was attempting to cover one thing by not addressing the deadlock and the calls for of the medical doctors, Bose declined to remark something citing the continued CBI probe into the rape-murder incident.
“I can not cross judgments on the state authorities at this stage of investigation,” he mentioned.
The response from the West Bengal governor follows a memorandum submitted by the protesting medical doctors on Monday, calling for a radical investigation by the CBI into the rape-murder of their colleague on the state run hospital on August 9. The letter was submitted by the protesting medical doctors, who took out a march to Raj Bhavan on Monday in search of their calls for to be met on the earliest.
“We can not settle for what the CBI has said in its cost sheet — just one individual was behind the crime. We demand a fast and clear investigation of the rape and homicide of our sister at RG Kar hospital,” one of many medical doctors who marched to the Raj Bhavan mentioned on Monday.
