India, Aug. 14 -- Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray on Tuesday said he would join the ongoing protest against the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday.

"Tomorrow I am going to join the protesters particularly because I've a daughter and little granddaughter like millions of Bengali families. We must rise to the occasion," the senior TMC MP wrote on X (formally Twitter).

"Enough of cruelty against women. Let's resist together. Come what may," Sukhendu Sekhar Ray added.

The body of the woman, a second-year postgraduate student who was raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of the hospital, was found on the morning of August 9. The crime took place on the t...