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Attempts to tarnish West Bengal's image before the world: CM Mamata

Inaugurating a slew of community Durga pujas in Kolkata and other districts of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that some people were trying to tarnish the image of the state before the world.

The rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 has led to large-scale protests across the country and also in some places across the globe.

"Those who are trying to tarnish (the image of) Bengal before the world will someday realise that they cannot absolve themselves of what they are doing," she said at Chetla Agrani club, from where she also virtually inaugurated a large number of community Durga pujas in several districts.

Without naming anyone, Banerjee said that no one can rise by insulting the "mother", terming West Bengal as the mother figure.

Junior doctors in state-run medical colleges in West Bengal struck work for over a month since the gruesome crime and have resumed from Tuesday 'total cease work' demanding

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