New Delhi: Amid the protests that continue to rage over rape-murder of 31-year-old medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Trinamool Congress leader Lovely Maitra’s alleged remark comparing the agitating junior doctors to “butchers” has invited wrath of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Reacting sharply to the comments, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala asked if TMC will sack Maitra or defend her as they did Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Poonawala also posted a video of Maitra’s speech on his social media.
“TMC MLA Lovely Maitra compares protesting Doctors to butchers. She also happens to be wife of an IPS in Kolkata Police who have been issuing notices and summons to doctors. Why so much hate against protesting doctors? Just because they are holding Mamata Govt and her police force accountable?” Poonwala wrote in his post on X.
TMC MLA Lovely Maitra compares protesting Doctors to butchers
She also happens to be wife of an IPS in Kolkata Police who have been issuing notices and summons to doctors
Why so much hate against protesting doctors? Just because they are holding Mamata Govt and her police… pic.twitter.com/ifmighrFHI
— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) September 3, 2024
The West Bengal BJP also hit out at the comments. Posting the undated video on it’s ‘X’ handle, the party alleged that the ruling party MLA was trying to defame the medics.
TMC MLA Lovely Maitra disgustingly calls doctors ‘butchers’ while her husband, IPS Soumya Roy, conveniently holds a top post in the Kolkata Police.
Is this venomous hate being spewed because doctors are bravely exposing Mamata Banerjee’s catastrophic failures and her police… pic.twitter.com/z1tnNw6t66
— BJP West Bengal (@BJP4Bengal) September 3, 2024
Maitra had allegedly made the remarks at a party programme some time back. She had said: “Doctors are becoming butchers in the name of protests. The poor and underprivileged come from remote parts, rural areas of Bengal for medical treatment at government hospitals. They cannot afford treatment at private hospitals, they are being made to suffer. They are not being treated. Are these (doctors) humans? Is this humane?” she said in Bangla.
After Maitra’s remarks sparked a row, she issued a clarification. She was quoted as saying by News18: “Doctors are gods, poor people consider doctors as gods. But, the way they are protesting, I hope they’re not called anything other than doctors. Why are they going to Lalbazar, why not CBI? We want capital punishment too.”
