West Bengal: Protesting doctors offered ‘final’ chance for talks with Mamata Banerjee
This was the fifth invitation extended to protestors by the state government in the past week.
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The West Bengal government on Monday invited protesting junior doctors for the “fifth and final time” for talks with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
For over a month, the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front has been leading protests against the rape and murder of their colleague at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was found dead at the hospital on August 9.
The doctors’ agitation has disrupted medical services at state-run hospitals in West Bengal. On September 9, the Supreme Court warned the doctors that they would face disciplinary action from the state government if they did not end their strike and resume work by 5 pm the next day.
On Monday, Chief Secretary Manoj Pant said in an email to the protestors that it is their “bounden duty, as law-abiding citizens, to follow and adhere to the apex court’s directive”.
He invited a delegation of protesting medics for a meeting with the chief minister at her residence in Kolkata.
“We trust that good sense will prevail, and as mutually agreed and as per your statement to the media day before – there will be no live streaming or videography of the meeting, given that the matter is sub judice in the highest court of the country,” wrote Pant. “Instead, the...
