An FIR against the DYFI state secretary Minakshi Mukherjee was lodged at Chetla police station today allegedly over the circulation of a controversial social media post involving the mayor and state municipal affairs minister Firhad Hakim.
Two persons, including a DYFI leader Kalatan Dasgupta were arrested after an audio tape related to a conspiracy of attacks on junior doctors was released by TMC leader Kunal Ghosh yesterday.
Amid continuing protests over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a laboratory worker at Howrah Sadar Hospital has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor patient.
The DYFI state secretary, Minakshi Mukherjee, who along with six other DYFI and SFI activists complying with the summons issued by the city police, deposed before the officers at Lalbazar today.
In Berhampur, five-time Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury submitted his nomination for the sixth time, today.
The DYFI state secretary Meenakshi Mukherjee is likely to be the CPM candidate for the prestigious Durgapur Lok Sabha seat.
The court ruling came on a plea filed against the inclusion of local leaders of the CPI-M and the DYFI in the Kalikavu temple management committee under the Malabar Devaswom Board.
Student leader Srijan Bhattacharya said they have deliberately borrowed their slogan from protests demanding arrest of the killers of Jessica Lal. He said the cases are similar in a way since in the Anis Khan murder, the police have also failed to nab the culprits even though more than a week has passed since the boy was murdered.
"We came to know that many senior doctors were not present, and this led to the death of many patients, including children. It is very unfortunate that this has happened at the principal health institute of north Bengal. The Covid pandemic situation prevails, and under such circumstances, how could some doctors not be available for the treatment of the patients?"
Dilip Ghosh said that family of Left and Congress workers were given jobs if they died, while more than 130 dead BJP workers didn't get anything.
