Kolkata rape case: A page from the TMC playbook

One cannot help but wonder at how meticulously things are planned. But then again, the classic script has been at play time and again. A gruesome murder is dismissed as a suicide but after suspicions arise on noticing the brutality inflicted on the victim who was clearly not the culprit, time is taken to mislead the purveyors and erase evidence so that the culprits get the slimy scope to escape. It has happened far too often and hence the doubts raised by the incidents at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are self-evident.

As protests mount against Mamata Banerjee, her administration and the Kolkata police, it is interesting to see how members of her party are now coming up with justifications to absolve the CM of bearing the blame for the initial delay in properly reporting the incident, sabotaging the investigation and vandalizing the crime arena by miscreants from the neighbouring slums that form the core of TMC voters. But most importantly, one has to carefully analyse how artfully the main theme of murder has been shifted to focus on rape. But why?

While we are investigating how a gruesome, cold-blooded murder can look like a crime of passion, it should also be known that the autopsy report (originally posted online and then deleted by the Kolkata police) apparently states that the victim was raped after her life was taken. The laws against necrophilia are not very strict in India. Does this mean that if it cannot be established in court that the young doctor was indeed raped before she was murdered, the alleged rapist who is now in custody would also walk free? So in effect, no one is being punished for the crime committed! Social media is flooded with the names of the perpetrators and the accomplices. There are also whispers that the Kolkata police escorted the kingpins out of the country while erasing evidence. With the ongoing CBI investigations, can the parents of the victim and the people of West Bengal really hope for justice?

The TMC manual will now stick to blaming the CBI for failing to solve the mystery, while the narrative continues to harp on about how ‘Modi’s India is unsafe for women’!

I doubt it. Considering the narrative now is focused on “Women are not safe in India” and “Men will be men”. Most protests are calling for punishment for the rapist instead of the murderers. No voice is raised against the corrupt practices being run. Mamata Banerjee, after successfully diverting the nation’s attention from the incident as a murder to smother a doctor with integrity in a crime of passion, has organised a protest rally demanding justice against rape! Sagarika Ghose, the TMC Rajya Sabha member who had the audacity to call the Sandeshkhali protests a land dispute issue, has gone on to compare the gory murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to how Vinesh Phogat was treated during the wrestler’s protests! Mahua Moitra, her party colleague, vehemently disqualifies the findings of the forensic team that established the occurrence of gang rape.

Sagarika Ghose, now a TMC MP and former journalist, has come out as a defender of the Mamata Banerjee government and the Kolkata Police. Instead of criticising her own government and the police for the hooliganism and vandalism at the RG Kar Hospital that led to the removal of evidence, she is playing the victim card. By covering up the shortcomings of the Mamata government, she is demanding justice from her own government while being part of it

Media people like Rajdeep Sardesai, instead of investigating the sorry state of West Bengal’s state machinery and the administrative failure to handle the investigation, have been discrediting the BJP for cornering Mamata Banerjee. I wonder why his questions are not directed at the CM for honest answers. Why is his anger circumstantial? Because this was never about getting justice or holding Mamata Banerjee accountable for the breakdown of law and order situation in West Bengal since she came to power. The TMC playbook will now stick to blaming the CBI for failing to solve the mystery, while the narrative continues to harp on how ‘Modi’s India is unsafe for women’! No wonder the jabs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi are being intensified. BBC has already had a small talk with activist Kavita Krishnan, in which she did not once complain about women being exposed to cruelty and danger in a state led by a female Chief Minister. Her mockery and vilification was only aimed at how Indian women feel insecure under Modi’s leadership. If this is not a clever story by the leftist clique, then what is?!

I came across a post on Facebook where a Pakistani boy expressed his shock over the brutality of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital case. The entire focus was on the extent of torture by the perpetrator (they still think it was one man, while the reality of multiple men involved in the murder is not known) while there was no mention of the corrupt mafia of organs, sex and drug trafficking behind this incident. Moreover, the rape was harped on instead of the murder to stifle a voice that threatened to bring out the vicious nexus. Finally, fingers were pointed at the collapse of the West Bengal state machinery and the CM’s involvement in sabotaging the investigation

was conspicuous by its absence. Apparently!

An Indian Muslim took to the comments section to mock the Indian government for investing too much time in communal politics instead of ensuring women’s safety! That comment proved how the narrative has been carefully twisted using the levers of wokeism to make it appear as a crime of passion instead of a carefully planned cold-blooded murder. The reason? To mislead the already confused into missing the real point here. That it was a hate crime, a murder committed to hide something sinister. That the state is involved in protecting the treacherous perpetrators! This is not about women’s safety in India. Data would reveal that women in this country are as safe as in many other countries and perhaps even safer. This is also not about ‘Men versus Women’ because female interns at the hospital were complicit in the murder (according to sources). This is about getting justice for the victim because she was murdered in cold blood and not on impulse. So the least we can do is ask the right questions and go through the

sly ploy to derail the movement with pseudo-feminist slogans that Banerjee,

her friends, the left-wing media and India-haters are doing their utmost.

The least we can do in this case is to ask the right questions and see through the sly ploy of derailing the movement with pseudo-feminist slogans that Mamata, her cronies, the left media and India-haters are working so hard to promote.

Now you will see feminists, activists and wokes coming out of their closets to viciously smear men and India. They will never question the henchman who rules West Bengal, under whose aegis crime, corruption and hooliganism flourish in my home state. They would not dare to raise their voices for the martyred women of Sandeshkhali. They will never ask why the Kolkata Police cyber cell is sending intimidating messages to those who point fingers at the leader. Why did they not show such zeal in investigating the crime? Why were doctors supporting the protests suddenly transferred! What is the real story behind the RG Kar director? And more importantly, why did the CM blame her opposition for orchestrating the destruction of the crime scene?

Fear influences, drives and impacts people like no other emotion. Anger fades away after some time, while fear lingers. The political terrain in West Bengal, unlike most other states, has been one of bloody conflict since the early 1970s. CPI(M) took over from Congress after Naxalbari. They ruled the state with an iron fist for nearly three and a half decades and shed innocent blood.

The present CM crushed CPI(M) on their own turf. Those bloody clashes have toughened her. So she knows exactly what to do to retain her seat. West Bengal is unique because behind the veil of the so-called intellectual Bhadralok lies the dark underbelly of street power, controlled by the minorities that Banerjee has appeased all these years to stay in power. She needs the ‘English speaking’ Sagarikas and Mahuas of the ‘Queen’ to provide cover to these thugs. They know the pulse of the Bengali street and know very well that the usual antics will continue for a few more days till the public unrest dies down and people return to their normal activities. Now the question is, will West Bengal leave the status quo undisturbed? Will they allow the narrative to be hijacked? Will they let the wolves snigger while deep wounds continue to fester! Will they let this dagger of dictatorship take the life of yet another innocent daughter of West Bengal?