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Kolkata: Within the Trinamool Congress (TMC), a sense of unease looms over the handling of the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in the seminar room of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, with a section of party leaders saying they are aggrieved at being scarcely consulted by CM Mamata Banerjee and clueless about the partys next moves...
There is also talk in internal circles of what to make of Mamatas kitchen cabinet in light of all that has happened, influence of a North Bengal lobby over health services-related decisions, anger in urban pockets turning into anti-incumbency sentiment, and of whether there are differences between Mamata and nephew Abhishek on how to handle the fallout...
While there is no such glaring evidence of a difference of opinion between Mamata and Abhishek on how to run the party, discordant voices critical of centralization of power within the party organisation have grown louder...
The first TMC leader quoted earlier is quick to add that speculation of differences between Mamata and Abhishek gained ground after a post on X (formerly Twitter) by him on 15 August, a day after a mob overran and vandalised the emergency ward of the state-run hospital in Kolkata where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered...
The mob also targeted doctors and civil society members sitting in protest to demand justice for the victim.. Terming the mobs actions as hooliganism and vandalism, Abhishek said he urged Kolkata Police chief to ensure that every individual responsible for todays violence is identified, held accountable, and made to face the law within the next 24 hours, regardless of their political affiliations.The MP from Diamond Harbour also endorsed the demands of protesting doctors as fair and justified...
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