Never Threatened Doctors, Says Mamata Banerjee Amid Allegations Of 'FIR Against Them'

Never Threatened Doctors, Says Mamata Banerjee Amid Allegations Of ‘FIR Against Them’

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has slammed a “malicious disinformation campaign” unleased against her. The reaction comes a day after the BJP accused her of threatening doctors protesting against a medico’s rape and murder of a Kolkata hospital.

“Let me most emphatically clarify that I have not uttered a single word against the (medical etc.) students or their movements. I totally support their movement. Their movement is genuine. I never threatened them, as some people are accusing me of doing. This allegation is completely false,” she said in a post on X.

I detect a malicious disinformation campaign in some print, electronic and digital media which has been unleashed with reference to a speech that I made in our students’ programme yesterday.

Let me most emphatically clarify that I have not uttered a single word against the…

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) August 29, 2024

“I have spoken against BJP. I have spoken against them because, with the support of the Government of India, they are threatening the democracy in our State and trying to create anarchy. With support from Centre, they are trying to create lawlessness and I have raised my voice against them,” she added.

The protesting doctors on Wednesday objected to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement that an “FIR could ruin their future.” The doctors who have taken to the streets since the rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College have decided to continue their protest despite Banerjee urging them to end the strike and return to work.

“I support the junior doctors’ agitation. They are protesting because their colleagues have been raped and murdered. We will not take any action against you, but I appeal to you to join work. The Supreme Court also requested the doctors to join work,” Banerjee said while addressing an event at the foundation day event of the Trinamool Congress’s student wing.

“The Supreme Court had also appealed to junior doctors to join work. One must remember that the SC said that it was up to the state government to take action. We didn’t take action. If an FIR is filed against you, your future will be ruined. He or she won’t get a passport or visa,” the Chief Minister added.