Opposition leader hits out at WB Chief secretary

Leader of the Opposition Surya Kanta Mishra today hit out at West Bengal Chief Secretary Sanjay Mitra for his statement condemning politics over the body of a gang-rape victim and termed it as 'his master's voice'.
"Whatever he has said is his master's voice. What he was told to brief he had briefed. But regarding his comment that politics is being done, I would like to say we are politicians and it our job not his," Mishra, a senior CPI(M) leader said.
The Chief Secretary earlier said "the government is fully with the bereaved family. However, at this point, I would wish to strongly deplore the tendency to create politics over a dead body."

The girl's father, a taxi driver, had yesterday alleged that police took away the body from a mortuary for cremation but could not do it as the death certificate was him.
He had also alleged that police had issued threats to the family to leave the state and return to Bihar.
The father and Left leaders had also met Governor M K Narayanan yesterday demanding security for the family and the death penalty for the rapists.
The girl, who was brutalised twice on October 25, had died at a government-run city hospital on December 31 from burns after she attempted self-immolation on December 23.