Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, on Sunday, announced his decisio...
Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, on Sunday, announced his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha as a protest against the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital as well as the corruption in governance in West Bengal.
Sircar has communicated this decision to Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee through a September 8 letter saying that he has decided to quit politics for good. Later he told a section of
the media persons that he would formally tender his resignation to the Chairman
of Rajya Sabha soon. In his letter to the Chief Minister, Sircar pointed out
that he decided to resign 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 a belief that you will
continue with your moves against financial corruption,” Sircar pointed out in
the letter. He also said that the current mass movement throughout West Bengal
on the R.G. Kar issue is because of the muscle flexing by a section of the
pampered bureaucracy and corrupt persons.
“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 said that the disciplinary measures being
adopted by the state government now is a very late initiative and the situation
in the health administration in the state could have been better had these
disciplinary actions been taken much before.
“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
demanding justice for the victim and against the state government
and ruling dispensation,” Sircar pointed out in the letter. Till the time the
report was filed, there was no reaction from Trinamool Congress on this count.
However, the opposition party leaders have welcomed the decision of Sircar.
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