"CBI should do polygraph test of Mamata Banerjee": BJP calls for action against West Bengal CM over RG Kar incident
Aug 27, 2024
New Delhi [India], August 27 : As the situation in Kolkata remains grim following student protests demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the rape and murder of a second-year trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said that CBI should do a polygraph test of Mamata Banerjee and the Police Commissioner.
"If there is any dictator in the country, then that dictator is Mamata Banerjee. The truth should come out, the investigating agency CBI should do a polygraph test of Mamata Banerjee and the Police Commissioner," Bhatia said while addressing a press conference.
"The truth cannot be suppressed and the biggest thing is that as long as these people are in their positions and are crushing the students, tearing the Constitution to pieces, this will not be tolerated, this issue will be raised strongly as it has been raised today," he added.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal BJP called a 12-hour West Bengal bandh on Wednesday to protest against the police action on the Nabana march.
Earlier in the day, security personnel lobbed tear gas shells, used water cannons and resorted to lathi-charge to disperse protestors on the Howrah Bridge marching towards the West Bengal State Secretariat Nabanna, amidst the row over the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case.
Protestors gathered at the Howrah Bridge, climbing atop police barricades and clashed with police personnel during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march. They were seen breaking and dragging away the barricades that were erected at the Santragachi area enroute to the Secretariat.
Several students and citizens joined the march displaying the tricolour in their hands and raising slogans as they moved towards the Secretariat. The West Bengal Police had deployed heavy forces aiming to keep in check the protestors.
Ahead of the protest, called amid the ongoing row over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, police had thrown a ring of security around the West Bengal state secretariat.
The protestors had been demanding justice for the trainee doctor who was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
