If shamelessness had a face would it be of Trinamool women leaders?

The hypocrisy on display in the RG Kar case is galling and people are seeing through it.

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It was unbelievable drama on Kolkata’s streets on Friday. The sitting Chief Minister of a state—the Supreme Leader of her party, the lady who claims to rule with an iron fist—was out on the streets with a posse of her “feisty” female MPs. They were demanding justice for the victim of a rape and murder at one of their own government’s medical-college-andhospitals. It’s a case where the state machinery is being accused of botching up the investigation to the extent of covering it up. Such has been the mishandling of the investigation into the rape and murder of a young doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital by the Mamata Banerjee government, that the Kolkata High Court described it on Friday as an “absolute failure of the state machinery”. But Bengal’s “Didi” thinks that she can shape the narrative in a case that has outraged the entire nation and is international news, to somehow pin the blame on the opposition parties in the state, the BJP and the Left. Her focus seems to be on diverting attention to the CBI and thus accuse the Central government of not giving justice to the victim. It’s a different matter that she delayed handing over the case to the CBI and it was the court that did so. But why let go of the opportunity to play politics with such a heinous crime now that things are going out of hand? Hence, she and her women leaders were heard making the ludicrous demand that the CBI must complete the investigation by Sunday and hang the culp