Kolkata: On Monday afternoon, the Trinamool Congress suspended Atish Sarkar from Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. His disparaging comments about the mothers and sisters of those protesting the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here sparked public outrage.
A video on this count went viral, in which Sarkar threatened to circulate morphed and distorted images of the mothers and sisters of those “trying to malign the image of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee” in the name of protest over the R.G. Kar issue.
“Remember, our Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee advised us to hiss at times. If we start hissing, you will not be able to come out of your houses,” he was heard saying at a public meeting in his locality in the viral video.
IANS or Mediaeyenews, however, could not check the video’s authenticity.
Soon after, Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh released a message on his official X handle condemning the party leader’s disrespectful statements on photographs of mothers and sisters.
“He has been identified, and the leadership has decided to suspend him from the party for a year,” added Ghosh in his statement.
On Sunday morning, four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, a private medical practitioner, issued a statement apologising for her recent derogatory remarks about female doctors while participating in a recent panel discussion on the heinous rape and murder of the junior doctor.
During a panel discussion held by a vernacular television channel, she stated that there was a tendency during her time as a medical student for female students to obtain qualifying marks by sitting in the laps of teaching doctors. Her remarks were widely criticised for being derogatory and disrespectful towards female doctors.
In the face of widespread criticism, she finally apologised and retracted the statement.
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–IANS
