The ex-students’ association of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday decided to expel Sudipta Ray, president of the state medical council, from its membership.

Ray, a Trinamool MLA from Serampore, is known to be a part of the same lobby to which former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh belongs.

The present ex-students association of RG Kar Medical College is crowded with supporters of a rival lobby led by former Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen.

Sen and Ray are known to be in opposite camps among Trinamool’s doctor supporters.

Sen was recently removed as an official spokesperson of Trinamool after he spoke out in public against Ghosh. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee criticised Sen without naming him. “We have decided to expel Sudipta Ray from membership of RG Kar Medical College’s ex-students association in our annual general body meeting on Saturday. A few other former students, who were accused of running a terror campaign on behalf of Sandip Ghosh, have also been expelled,” said a member of the association.

Ray told The Telegraph: “I was an office bearer of the ex-students association several years ago. I was not at all active in the association. I do not know who took this decision... no one has informed me anything.”

Audio clip

An audio clip emerged on Saturday where a voice identifying himself as Birupaksha Biswas, a doctor known to be a part of the “north Bengal lobby” in the state’s health administration, is heard threatening a student.

The voice tells the student that he will ensure the student does not get his
MBBS registration and has to do the rounds of the court for a year.

Biswas told The Telegraph the voice was “AI created”. “The protests after the ghastly crime at RG Kar began with demanding justice. It then turned into maligning all doctors who are pro-government. The anti-government doctor associations have levelled many false allegations against me and other pro-government doctors. I will take them to court,” he said.