Asha Devi, mother of ‘Nirbhaya,' on Saturday called for the resignation of Mamata Banerjee, saying that the West Bengal chief minister had ‘failed to handle the situation.’ She was reacting to the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
“As a woman, she (Banerjee) should have taken action against the culprits while discharging her responsibility as the head of the state. She should resign for failing to handle the situation,” Asha Devi said. Also, Nirbhaya's mother claimed that the West Bengal CM was trying to 'mislead the public.’
Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer of Kolkata Police, has been arrested for the August 9 crime that has drawn parallels with December 16, 2012, when ‘Nirbhaya’ was gang raped and tortured in a moving bus. Amid nationwide protests over the incident, she was airlifted to Singapore, where she died in a hospital on December 29.