Award-winning actress-turned-filmmaker Aparna Sen, celebrity directors Srijit Mukhopadhyay and Birsa Dasgupta, singer Shovan Ganguly, movie stars like Swastika Mukherjee, Sudipta and Bidipta Chakraborty, Chaiti Ghosal, and Sohini Sarkar marched with the activists, youths, students and medics.
Filmmakers, movie stars march with activists, students, medics to add momentum to protest against rape, murder of doctor in Kolkata
Kolkata: Film and theatre personalities, artists, civil society activists, students, and junior doctors took to the streets in Kolkata on Sunday to seek justice for the postgraduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at a hospital run by the government of West Bengal on August 9.
The march followed by a sit-in demonstration added fresh momentum to the apolitical protests against the rape and murder of the 31-year-old doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital after the outrage of the citizens was slightly eclipsed by the attempts by Bhartiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress to turn it into a political movement against the state’s Trinamool Congress government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The BJP and the CPI(M), however, continued with their own sit-in demonstration and protest marches in Kolkata as well as other places in West Bengal.