The controversy over the use of substandard saline at Midnapore Medical College has sparked widespread protests by political organisations, with both the Left and BJP intensifying their agitation against the state government and health authorities.
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.
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.
Maidul Islam Midya an activist of DYFI, a CPI-M youth wing, was critically injured during the Left Front March to the secretariat on February 11.
Left cadres blocked railway tracks and roads in Malda, Barddhaman, Raiganj, Asansol, Dankuni and parts of Kolkata, North 24 Parganas and Nadia
The DYFI and youth members of the Left Front parties also hurled stones, footballs and oranges towards the deployed RAF and other police officials.
CPIM's youth wing DYFI had called for the Nabanna expedition to demand jobs and education for all from the TMC-led West Bengal government.
