Kolkata rape-murder: Mamata Banerjee faces backlash for ‘threatening doctors, northeast’; CMs, BJP leaders hit back

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Kolkata rape case: The Bharatiya Janata Party has hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly threatening protesting doctors and northeastern states during a public rally at Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) foundation day on Wednesday.a...

West Bengal BJP state president and Union minister of state Sukanta Majumdar condemned Mamata Banerjees remarks as unprecedented and threatening and shot off a letter to Union home minister Amit Shah stating that she no longer deserves to hold such an important position..

It is unthinkable and unprecedented for a chief minister, who is constitutionally bound to rise above partisan attitudes, to make such intimidating statements that pose a threat to democracy, Sukanta Majumdar told reporters..

Speaking at the public rally in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee had claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was using the BJP to cause a fire in Bengal over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old woman trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and warned that if you burn Bengal, other states including Assam, northeast, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Delhi too shall burn and your chair will be toppled..

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also hit out at his West Bengal counterpart for allegedly threatening the northeastern state with unrest..

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