The BJP on Friday upped the ante against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and demanded that she immediately step down, saying a fair probe into the Kolkata medic rape-murder case was not possible so long as she remained at the helm. The BJP's latest salvo came after the medic's family members, who joined the protesting doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday, accused the Kolkata Police of attempting to suppress the case by hastily cremating the body.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters in Delhi, party national spokesperson and Lok Sabha MP Sambit Patra said the victim's father raised many questions of "paramount importance".
"The victim's father has said that when the body was kept at (their) home, DC North (of the Kolkata Police) came to him and tried to give him money. Why? What was the administration trying to throw under the carpet by paying bribe money to the parents of the victim?" he asked.
Patra further said, "So long as the chief minister of West Bengal and Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal continue to hold their posts, a fair investigation into the case is not possible… Hence, the BJP asks both of them -- step down from your posts for a fair trial and justice to the victim."
