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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (PTI)
The Bengal CM said she never threatened the protesting doctors and alleged that some people were making false accusations
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took to social media platform X, denying claims that she threatened students protesting against the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar hospital on August 9. She claimed that some media organisations were running a “malicious disinformation campaign” against her.
Referring to her speech during the 27th foundation day rally of the West Bengal Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, she said, “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 (medical etc.) students or their movements. I totally support their movement.”
“I never threatened them, as some people are accusing me of doing. This allegation is completely false,” she said.
She clarified her stance, saying, “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…I also clarify that the phrase (“phonsh kara”) that I had used in my speech yesterday is a quote from Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Deva…My speech on that point was a direct allusion to the great Ramakrishnite saying.”
