BJP Leader Shehzad Poonawalla Criticizes TMC Over RG Kar Medical College Incident

New Delhi, India, August 18: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shehzad Poonawalla has accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of destroying evidence related to the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. He also criticized the leaders of the INDIA bloc for their silence on the issue.

Shehzad Poonawalla stated, “Instead of catching the goons who ransacked RG Kar Medical College, they are cracking down on citizens, doctors, and opponents. The TMC government is involved in destroying the evidence. They talk about saving the Constitution, but Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Chaturvedi, the leaders of the INDI alliance, all them are missing in action. None of them have a single word to say. The order that was issued to transfer 43 doctors has also been withdrawn and they are seeing this was a routine order. Why are they withdrawing it? It was done to intimidate the doctors.”

On August 9, a postgraduate trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered while on duty at RG Kar Medical College, leading to nationwide strikes and protests by the medical community. On August 14, the protest site and the hospital campus were vandalized by a mob, prompting security personnel to disperse the crowd.

To maintain law and order, Kolkata Police have imposed Section 163 around the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital for seven days, effective from August 18.