An MLA from the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Saturday alleged that protests by junior doctors seeking justice in the RG Kar rape and murder case were being “remotely controlled” by the Left parties in the state, news agency PTI reported.

Narayan Goswami, an MLA from Ashoknagar, claimed that the initial protests till August 14 were led by ordinary citizens, but left parties like CPI(M) were trying to enter the protests using their front flank and take over them.

“Subsequent events – the sit-in strike by junior doctors, the death fast programme, the ‘droho’ carnival (protest rally against the Durga Puja carnival), the rally on Saturday, November 9, are all signs of increasing agitation. It is remotely controlled by left-wing parties and their front organizations. The right-wing BJP has also joined hands with the left in a game plan to destabilize the state, which will not succeed,” Goswami said at a public outreach program in North 24 Parganas district.

Doctors are in denial

Protesting doctors from the West Bengal Young Doctors’ Front denied any political affiliation and emphasized that their movement had the support of the people of the state.

They also emphasized that their sole aim was to “clean up the rot” in the state’s healthcare system and also to ensure justice for “Abhaya”, the name the protester used to describe the postgraduate doctor who was brutally raped and murdered in Kolkata. RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on August 9.

“We had not allowed any political party to enter our agitation scene for the last three months. Whatever any TMC leader says against people’s agitation, let people judge,” said Dr. Aniket Mahato.

Expressing unhappiness with the progress of the CBI investigation into the case, junior doctors announced that a series of new excitements have begun in the state from November 9.

(with PTI inputs)