"She is standing as a candidate for a party that celebrates by garlanding rapists"—junior doctors issue explosive statement as the victim's mother enters the electoral fray.

Sanchita Chatterjee, BS News Agency: Nineteen months after the RG Kar Hospital incident, 'Abhaya' is once again making headlines—though this time, not through a protest march, but on the battlefield of electoral politics. The victim's mother has emerged as the BJP candidate for the Panihati constituency in the upcoming Assembly elections. As soon as this development came to light, it sparked intense debate and controversy within state politics. While various questions began to take shape in the minds of the general public, the 'West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front' issued a statement clarifying their stance on the matter. In their statement, the junior doctors' organization explicitly declared that an individual's decision to contest an election on behalf of any specific political party is entirely a personal choice. The organization holds neither support for nor objection to this step taken by the victim's mother. However, they have raised a fundamental question: Is our country's judicial system so frail that a bereaved mother, having lost her child, is compelled to enter the corridors of power—or the electoral arena—merely to secure justice? If one must prove oneself to be 'influential' in order to obtain justice, then it is only natural for questions to be raised regarding the role of the elected government.

The statement also expresses strong indignation regarding the role of the central investigative agency, the CBI. The junior doctors allege that the failure to file a supplementary chargesheet within the stipulated timeframe against Sandeep Ghosh and the former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tala Police Station is highly suspicious. They pose the question: Is the prerequisite for filing a chargesheet, then, the victim's family joining the BJP? They have characterized this situation as both 'shameful' and 'appalling' for democracy.

The organization has served as a reminder that this movement was non-partisan and represented a spontaneous protest by the common people. They have categorically stated that the record regarding women's safety in other BJP-ruled states is also extremely dismal. The junior doctors remain skeptical as to the likelihood of obtaining justice at the hands of a party that "celebrates by garlanding rapists." Nevertheless, they have appealed for this situation to be viewed with empathy—acknowledging the sheer desperation a mother must feel to consent to being utilized for political ends. Doctors have expressed deep hurt over the victim's family's remark that "all the protesters were fighting solely for their own self-interest." They clarified that—spanning the entire region from North to South Bengal—those who braved incessant rain and kept vigil through the nights demanding justice were driven by a singular objective: to bring about a radical transformation in the judicial system and healthcare infrastructure, not to serve any personal or electoral agendas.

Finally, the Junior Doctors Front unequivocally articulated their stance: regardless of whether the ruling power wears the colors of Red, Green, or Saffron, the language of authority remains invariably the same. They asserted that they stand neither for nor against any political party; rather, acting as an independent civic voice, they will continue to call out wrongs as wrong and injustices as unjust.