Kolkata: Jawhar Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member, announced his resignation from the Rajya Sabha on Sunday in protest of the horrific rape and murder of a woman doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, as well as corruption in West Bengal governance.
The Trinamool Congress did not respond to this report until it was filed. However, opposition party leaders have applauded Sircar’s move.
Sircar informed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of his decision in a letter dated September 8, stating that he had decided to leave politics permanently.
Later, he informed a segment of the media that he will formally submit his resignation to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha shortly.
In his letter to the Chief Minister, Sircar said he resigned from the Rajya Sabha in 2022 after evidence of corruption against the former West Bengal Education Minister, Partha Chatterjee, surfaced. “I was harassed by a section of the party leadership. However, I refrained from resigning with the belief that you will continue with your moves against financial corruption,” Sircar pointed out in the letter.
He further claimed that the current mass action in West Bengal over the R.G. Kar problem is the result of the muscle-flexing of a segment of the privileged bureaucracy and corrupt individuals.
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“I have never witnessed such grievance and non-confidence against any government ever in my life. After carefully observing the sequence of events on the R.G. Kar issue for the last month a question came to my mind on why you are not directly interacting with the protesting junior doctors as you used to do before,” Sircar said.
He also stated that the disciplinary steps implemented by the state government were very late and that the situation in the state’s health administration could have been improved if these disciplinary actions had been initiated much earlier.
“I personally feel that the current protests on this issue have been totally apolitical and spontaneous in nature. So, it would be unfair to resist this movement by giving it a political tag. The movement is not just demanding justice for the victim but also against the state government and ruling dispensation,” Sircar pointed out in the letter.
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–IANS
