'Can She Return My Daughter?': RG Kar Doctor's Mother Lashes Out At Mamata Banerjee Urging Protestors To Join Puja Festivities

The mother of the trainee doctor, raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has expressed displeasure at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's statement urging people to join Puja festivities.

Banerjee had urged protesting junior doctors to resume work and said, "I would request all — you have done many movements, now enter the festive season of Durga Puja."

Responding to this, the mother said, "She (Banerjee) is appealing to people to return to the festive mood. I want to ask if this had happened to someone from her family, would she have said the same thing?"

The mother added that if people want to get into a festive mood, she can’t say anything but expressed the belief that all the protesting doctors consider the 31-year-old victim as their own.

"We used to have Durga Puja at my home. My daughter herself did the puja and all the preparations. Durga Puja will never be the same for me, I know," the mother expressed her grief on Monday (9 September).

Attacking the CM, she said, "They want to throttle this movement, the way my daughter was strangled and murdered. We lost our daughter. Can she (Banerjee) return my daughter?"

The parents of the victim had earlier also expressed their distrust in Banerjee and alleged that the police tried to bribe them to cover up the case.

Banerjee, however, defending the police said that nothing of this sort happened. She also claimed that Kolkata Police Commissioner offered to resign after the incident but she did not let him do so.