Here is BJP on Dr. Kakoli Dastidar, a leader of TMC rebels.
"We saw how Dr Kakoli Dastidar, MP and senior leader of the TMC, made abhorrent sexist comments against women doctor and her son is abusing the doctor community and promising to fix them permanently."
Now, Kakoli Dastidar wants to support the NDA in the "public interest" and lists the RG Kar case as one of her motivations.
Do you really think these are the people who will help fix India's problems? From paper leaks to joblessness to water stress to energy insecurity to the looming specter of AI?
India's political system is broken. Elected officials switching allegiances is never (at least in my experience) about the public interest. It is first and foremost about personal interest. A good system would require Dr Dastidar to resign her seat and return to the people and seek a fresh mandate to serve them.
Politicians brazen it out. The public allows it. Then we wonder why paper leaks happen, why bridges collapse, why new roads have potholes, why pollution is poisoning our lungs, why we see people packed like sardines in trains, or women carrying water to their homes in this crushing heat.
Resign and seek a fresh mandate, Dr. Dastidar and colleagues. Don't insult the public by talking about our interest.
The TMC was always dictatorial and opposed to the idea of free speech. Their decision to boycott three popular news channels in West Bengal—TV9, Republic, and ABP Ananda bears us out.
But this decision is not a consequence of any principles, because Mamata Banerjee and her party have none, but out of growing frustration and inability to face the truth
We saw how Dr Kakoli Dastidar, MP and senior leader of the TMC, made abhorrent sexist comments against women doctor and her son is abusing the doctor community and promising to fix them permanently.
The Trinamool Congress fears the truth. But while truth may be disrupted, it cannot be defeated. The anti-Bengal Trinamool is inflicting suffering on Bengalis and dishonoring West Bengal.
Just today, 5-6 incidents of rape and molestation were reported, 7 in the 48 hours before that, several of them directly linked to the members of the TMC.
West Bengal has become a region devoid of industry and jobs, is plagued by terror and ruled by goons. Boycotting media channels may not help the TMC, unless Mamata Banerjee resigns, subjects herself to polygraph test and allows a fair probe in the rape and murder of the young women doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.