RG Kar Rape-Homicide Case: Amid the raging protests over the ghastly rape and homicide of a trainee physician of R.G. Kar Medical School and Hospital in Kolkata, a vital assembly between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the junior medical doctors protesting has been scheduled for Monday at 5 PM.
This comes after Mamata Banerjee issued an attraction to the junior medical doctors to withdraw their fast-unto-death demonstration and are available for discussions. The date and time of the assembly had been fastened at a telephonic interplay between the representatives of the West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance (WBJDF), the umbrella physique spearheading the motion, and CM Banerjee.
Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, accompanied by House Secretary Nandini Chakraborty and Kolkata Police’s Deputy Commissioner, Central Division, Indira Mukherjee, immediately turned up on the dais of the starvation strike by seven junior medical doctors at Esplanade in central Kolkata, as reported by information company IANS. There, he contacted the Chief Minister on his cell phone, and he or she made her attraction to the protesting junior medical doctors over its speaker.
“I request you to withdraw the starvation strike. Please come to the discussions. Most of your calls for have already been fulfilled. Please give me three to 4 months. I’ll organize to conduct elections for various councils in all medical schools and hospitals. Please withdraw the starvation strike,” Banerjee mentioned, as quoted by IANS. The Trinamool Congress chief mentioned that the widespread individuals really feel helpless if they don’t get medical companies on the state-run hospitals.
“I’m in favour of humanity. I additionally need justice. However on the identical time, the remedy of the widespread individuals must be ensured. So I’m once more requesting you to withdraw from the starvation strike and get again to work,” she added.
Debasish Halder, one of many main faces of the junior medical doctors’ motion, interacted with Mamata Banerjee over the phone. He requested her to present a written assurance concerning the state authorities accepting their calls for.
“A incorrect message is happening that the junior medical doctors are protesting solely within the demand of the fast elections for various councils within the totally different medical schools and hospitals,” Halder advised the Chief Minister. Later, Halder mentioned that their protests on this problem will proceed until they get particular assurance of achievement of their calls for.
Banerjee’s interplay with junior medical doctors comes a day after the WBJDF cautioned the TMC-led authorities that they are going to be pressured to return to a complete cease-work agitation from Tuesday until their calls for should not fulfilled by Monday.
“It appeared that the Chief Minister didn’t have a transparent thought about what our ten-point calls for are. The entire strategy of telephonic interplay doesn’t appear to be fairly delicate. So now we must wait until Monday for the result of the assembly,” one other protesting junior physician mentioned.
Rumelika Kumar, one of many seven junior medical doctors on starvation strike, mentioned that it appeared that the state authorities was not taking the starvation strike critically. “The way wherein we had been requested to return to obligation was fairly painful for us,” she mentioned.
(With IANS Inputs)
