From the highest echelons of administration while directly handling the Home Department herself (serving as her own Police Minister) and above all, being a woman, her remark is utterly deplorable and shameful! The Chief Minister cannot possibly evade responsibility for the absolute collapse of law and order in West Bengal. Shockingly, even now, she has chosen to shift the blame onto the private medical college! This, despite the fact that just a few months ago, a young woman doctor was brutally raped and murdered inside a government medical college hospital. As the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee’s pronouncement is not merely an insult to every woman in Bengal but also a matter of grave concern. A comment of this nature from a woman Chief Minister once again exposes that law and order have completely slipped out of the government’s control. It is now Mamata Banerjee’s moral duty to step down without any further delay. — *Dr. Sukanta Majumdar*, Union Minister of State for Education and DoNER