If politics is the art of the possible, Mamata Banerjee has managed to pull it off. Not too long ago, the firebrand chief minister of West Bengal had faced one of the biggest challenges of her political career, and it had seemed there was no way out for her.
The rape and murder of a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August sparked nationwide outrage. It was directed not just at the chronic issue of violence against women but at the alleged botched investigation by the Kolkata police and the state government’s laxity in delivering justice. From ‘Reclaim the night’ marches by women across West Bengal to doctors’ strikes and protest songs like Aar Kobe? by Arijit Singh, people’s anger at the West Bengal government’s functioning was apparent. Such was the scale of the outcry that Mamata Banerjee offered to resign “for the sake of people” and to get justice for the doctor.
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