A former Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP and current spokesperson Shantanu Sen on Wednesday said studies at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has gone to the pits on the last few years.

Sen accused the former principal Ghosh of giving his coterie a free run in running the college.

“Classes are not held there. There are no studies. If the coterie is kept happy students are handed question papers, cheating is rampant,” Sen told The Telegraph Online.

“Mamata Banerjee has done a lot of things to alleviate the conditions of the medical colleges in the state. But for the last three years, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been deprived because of the principal (the former principal Sandip Ghosh),” Sen said.

The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and the larger medical fraternity across the nation has expressed outrage over the rape and murder of a 31-year old postgraduate trainee that took place on the wee hours of Friday. The Calcutta Police’s special investigation team which was set up to probe the matter had arrested a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy in connection with the crime.

The Calcutta high court on Tuesday announced a court-monitored CBI probe into the rape-and-murder which has sent shockwaves across the country.

Ghosh, who was transferred by the state government to the Calcutta National Medical and Hospital as principal, was asked to go on leave by the Calcutta high court.

Sen and his wife Kakali are both alumni of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Sen claimed his daughter who was a student at the same institute had also faced discrimination.

When asked whether Sen had informed the party or the government regarding his complaints about RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sen said, “I had informed the authorities concerned.”

Sen refused to reply whether his concerns went unheard.

On Tuesday, Kakali had joined a sit-in protest at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

“This college, this campus, this building I had spent many years. We were not scared for even a single moment. In those days there was an arrow, dark passage leading to the hospital from the building. We walked freely without any concern,” Kakali Sen told media persons. “While walking in the dark passage we never felt someone could be lurking around. We never thought such a gruesome crime could be committed in this college.”

“I am not comfortable that my daughter will be on night shifts here,” she said.

Their daughter will graduate from the college in another six months.