R.G. Kar hospital rape-murder case: What Kolkata is witnessing is its biggest mass movement post-Independence

The movement for justice in the R.G. Kar Hospital case belongs to the common people of Kolkata: the masses

Agitators take cover during rains as junior doctors continued their ‘cease work’ and sit-in demonstration against the R.G. Kar Hospital incident, outside Swasthya Bhavan in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: PTI

Whatever the legal and political outcome in the rape-murder of an on-duty doctor at the R.G. Kar Hospital, the public response to the incident is being seen as the biggest mass movement Kolkata has witnessed post-Independence, with only a couple of outcries that still remain in people’s memory, one of them being when the tram fare was raised by one paisa.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/rg-kar-hospital-rape-murder-case-what-kolkata-is-witnessing-is-its-biggest-mass-movement-post-independence/article68641466.ece

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