'Will Socially Boycott Mamata': Bengal Guv Lashes Out At CM Over RG Kar, Calls Her 'Lady Macbeth'

Ananda Bose said the state government has failed in its duties and this was due to the “dilemma that the health minister is the home minister and the home minister is the chief minister”.

File photo of Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose continued his attack on the West Bengal government over the RG Kar rape and murder saying that he will “socially boycott” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and not share any public platform with her.

Bose said the state government has failed in fulfilling its duties to implement the rule of law in the state. He also said that the Chief Minister, instead of providing security to the people, is engaged in protest.

"I stand committed to the people of Bengal. I reiterated my commitment to the parents of the victim of RG Kar and also to those who are demonstrating for justice. In my assessment, the government has failed in its duties," he said.

The Governor referred to Mamata Banerjee as "Lady Macbeth of Bengal" and said that there is violence everywhere in the state. 

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"There is violence on the roads, violence in houses, violence in campuses, violence in hospites... There is violence everywhere," he said. 

He also vowed to socially boycott CM Mamata and said he would not participate in any public programme with her.
 
“In solidarity with the Bengal society, I resolve that I will socially boycott the Chief Minister. Socially boycott means I will not be sharing any public platform with the Chief Minister nor will I participate in any public program which involves the Chief Minister,” Bose said in a video statement.

"My role as the Governor will be confined to the Constitutional obligations... I stand committed to the people of Bengal. I reiterated my commitment to the parents of the victim of RG Kar and also to those who are demonstrating for justice. In my assessment, the government has failed in its duties," he added.

Bose said the state government has failed in its duties and this was due to the “dilemma that the health minister is the home minister and the home minister is the chief minister”.

The remark comes hours after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she was ready to resign for the sake of people and expressed regret over the junior doctors' refusal to come for talks to resolve the impasse over the R G Kar case.

Mamata Says Ready To Resign

Mamata Banerjee offered to resign after the CM waited for nearly two hours for the agitating doctors to come for a meeting to discuss the impasse over the RG Kar issue. She said she wanted the victim to get justice and apologised to the people of West Bengal for the continued deadlock.

In a dramatic turn of events earlier today, the protesting junior doctors, who reached the gates of the state secretariat, refused to hold talks with the state government unless their demand for live streaming of the meeting was met.

Banerjee said the meeting with the junior doctors cannot be live-streamed as demanded by them because the issue is sub-judice and before the Supreme Court.

"For the sake of the people, I am ready to resign. I also want the victims to get justice, but this is not the way. We have tolerated a lot of canards and insults for the last 33 days. I thought the junior doctors would engage in talks for the sake of the patients and on humanitarian grounds," she said.

"We have been waiting for over two hours, hoping that reason would guide the junior doctors...I apologise to the people, who expected that the issue would be resolved today," she said and claimed that external instructions were influencing some junior doctors not to engage in discussions.