Protection of life and properties of the citizens is the prime responsibility of a government in a democracy and there are state instruments to ensure that

xWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s response to the midnight rape of a medico on a campus in Durgapur in the state can easily be termed one of the worst examples of victim-blaming and abdication of responsibility by a person at the wheel.

The chief minister was wondering aloud how the victim girl came out at 12.30 in the night. And worse, blaming the medical college and the girl, she suggested that girls should not be allowed to go outside in the night and that they have to protect themselves.

Protection of life and properties of the citizens is the prime responsibility of a government in a democracy and there are state ins

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