“By asking women students not to venture out at night, the Chief Minister has made it clear that the propaganda that Kolkata is the safest city, or Durgapur is a safe city, is not true,” CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty said. File
The CPI(M) on Sunday (October 12, 2025) claimed that West Bengal has become a safe haven for criminals, maintaining that the state is not anymore safe for women.
“In West Bengal, criminals are safe and not women,” CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (October 12) said that female boarders, especially those from outside the state, should follow hostel rules and not venture out late at night.
Ms. Banerjee made the averment after a private medical college student in Durgapur, hailing from Odisha, was gang-raped allegedly on Friday (October 10) night when she went out with a friend for dinner.
Mr. Chakraborty said Ms. Banerjee, by asking female students not to venture out at night, has made it apparent that West Bengal is “not safe for women”.
“By asking women students not to venture out at night, the Chief Minister has made it clear that the propaganda that Kolkata is the safest city, or Durgapur is a safe city, is not true,” Mr. Chakraborty, a former CPI(M) Lok Sabha MP, said.
“She (Ms. Banerjee) has made it apparent that the state is not anymore safe for women,” he said.
Mr. Chakraborty maintained that security personnel of the private medical college are responsible for security inside the campus and not outside, which he said is the responsibility of the state’s law and order mechanism.
A private medical college student in Durgapur, hailing from Odisha, was gang-raped allegedly on Friday (October 10) night when she went out with a friend for dinner.
Published – October 12, 2025 04:59 pm IST
