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Another opposition party CPI(M) and BJP questioned the law and order situation in West Bengal after the alleged incident and claimed that the state is not safe for women.
Asserting that no one involved in the alleged gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur on Friday will be spared, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged female hostelers, especially those from outside the state, to follow hostel rules and not go out late at night.
Three people resident of Durgapur have been arrested in connection with the crime.
CPI(M) Central Committee member Sujan Chakraborty criticized Banerjee, saying that by asking girl students not to go out at night, she had made it clear that West Bengal is not safe for women.
BJP supporters took out a protest march and staged a sit-in outside Asansol South Police Station.
Former BJP MP Locket Chatterjee went to the hospital in Durgapur where the student was undergoing treatment, but police personnel did not allow her entry.
The party also protested in front of the city center in Durgapur, the state’s largest industrial city.
A private medical college student from Durgapur, Odisha, was allegedly gang-raped on Friday night when she had gone out for dinner with a friend.
Mahila Congress workers also went to the hospital and demanded that they be allowed to talk to the officials.
Left Front president Biman Bose demanded death penalty for those found guilty.
Former CPI(M) Lok Sabha MP Chakraborty said, “Students should not go out at night, the chief minister has made it clear that Kolkata, the safest city, or Durgapur, a safe city, was a publicity campaign.
“They have made it clear that the state is no longer safe for women,” he claimed.
The CPI(M) leader alleged that West Bengal has become a safe haven for criminals.
BJP’s West Bengal unit president Samik Bhattacharya pointed to the chief minister’s advice to women hostel inmates to move out at night, claiming it was an “admission” that there is “no law and order” in the state.
“Does she (Mamata Banerjee) have any moral right to sit on the chief minister’s chair or hold the post of police minister?” he asked.
Claiming that the people of the state are “angry” with the Trinamool Congress government in Bengal, Bhattacharya said law and order will return in the state only when this government is voted out of power.
Assembly elections in West Bengal are to be held in 2026.
Members of Abhay Manch, a forum formed after the rape-murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024, and the Senior Doctors Association also visited Durgapur to express solidarity with the victim’s family.
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