In a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Jawhar Sircar said he became increasingly "disillusioned" with the state government. Published: September 8, 2024 4:00 PM IST By Edited by TMC MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday wrote to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, the chief of his party, and said he has decided to quit Rajya Sabha and leave politics altogether, describing the steps taken by the state government in handling the rape and murder of the doctor at RG Kar hospital “too little and quite late”. In the letter, Jawhar Sircar said he became increasingly “disillusioned” with the state government as it seemed “quite unconcerned” about corruption and “strong-arm tactics” of a section of leaders.
Terming the protests over the doctor’s death spontaneous, the retired IAS officer said he had not seen “such angst and total no-confidence” against a government, even when it was saying things that were correct or factual. “The primary purpose of joining as an MP, without any direct involvement in party politics, was that it offered an excellent forum to carry on the struggle against the autocratic and communal politics of the BJP and its Prime Minister. To that extent, I have some satisfaction and my several interventions in parliament.
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Sircar said that in 2022, a year after he joined the TMC, he was “quite shocked” to see the “open evidence of corruption” that former education minister Partha Chatterjee had indulge.
