A inferior doc speaking to CM Mamata Banerjee implicit telephone from the Indefinite Hunger onslaught mancha astatine Esplanade successful the beingness of CS Manoj Panth and HS Nandini Chakraborty. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
“I person removed CP, DME, DHS but cannot region everyone…need 4 months to see different demands, including elections. Please retreat from the hunger strike.” With these words, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Saturday reached retired to the inferior doctors who person been protesting against the government’s handling of the R G Kar rape and execution case.
Banerjee, who spoke to the doctors implicit the phone, besides urged them to retreat their “fasting unto death” movement, assuring them that she would see their demands sympathetically. She besides said that she was acceptable to speech to the inferior doctors astatine Nabanna connected Monday.
As the indefinite hunger onslaught announced by 7 inferior doctors completed 2 weeks connected Saturday, authorities Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty reached the protestation venue astatine Esplanade. Pant past dialled Mamata Banerjee, who spoke done his phone. The main curate pointed retired that she had removed the constabulary commissioner, the manager of aesculapian education, and the manager of wellness services.
“You cognize wherefore I did not region the wellness secretary… I said it is not imaginable to region everybody successful a department,” she further said, referring to the doctors’ request to region authorities Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam.
“You should emergence supra authorities and rejoin work. People are present asking for justice. You present bash justness to them…You are changing your decisions each day. You should service people. I permission it to your consideration,” Banerjee said.
The doctors said that they wanted to clasp nonstop talks with her and said that she was misinformed astir their movement. The doctors had connected Friday fixed the authorities authorities clip till Monday to conscionable their demands, failing which they had threatened to spell connected a statewide onslaught connected Tuesday.