Jawhar Sircar writes to Mamata, offers to resign from RS post, politics

Urging her to do something to "save the state", Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar, on Sunday, wrote to the party chairperson and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, announcing his resignation from the Parliamentarian post and from politics due to state government's alleged "faulty handling" of the public movement following the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.

Sircar wrote on X: "I am quitting as MP primarily because of WB government's faulty handling of the most spontaneous public movement following the terrible rape-murder case at RG Kar Hospital. Quitting politics- to be with the people in their struggle for justice. My commitment to values unchanged".

In his letter, he wrote that he "suffered patiently" for a month since the RG Kar incident and was hoping for Mamata Banerjee's direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors.

He wrote, "whatever punitive steps that the government is taking now are too little and quite late".