Rape-Murder of Junior Doctor: RG Kar tense again as jr doctors chase away ex-principal’s ‘lobby’

On Wednesday, 12 of them — including elder PGT medic Ashis Pandey, belonging to the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) and known to person ties with Sandip Ghosh, the erstwhile main presently successful CBI custody – appeared earlier the panel.

During the hearing, the protesting inferior doctors occupied the country extracurricular the infirmary superintendent’s bureau wherever the 12 deposed.

As the 12 were leaving the infirmary premises, hundreds of inferior doctors chanted slogans similar “down with menace culture” and “down with northbound Bengal lobby”. As the inferior doctors chased the group, they were escorted retired of the infirmary by CISF personnel.

The “north Bengal lobby” refers to a radical of doctors employed successful government-run hospitals and aesculapian colleges. The doctors belonging to the radical person been accused of “threatening” inferior doctors of RG Kar hospital. The doctors of the radical are believed to beryllium adjacent associates of Sandip Ghosh.

Meanwhile, inferior doctors said they would proceed their protestation and their “fight for justice” would beryllium escalated “if needed”.

“Justice for RG Kar contiguous is not lone the question of RG Kar Medical College oregon lone inferior doctors. This question has go a wide mass-citizen movement. The protesting doctors consciousness that this question could not person progressed without the publication of the communal radical of Bengal,” Debashish Haldar, 1 of the leaders of West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), told mediapersons.

The inferior doctors besides slammed the BJP, accusing the Opposition enactment of “trying to usage the question for the petty interests of grabbing the powerfulness successful the state”.

This aft BJP leaders similar Dilip Ghosh and Ashok Dinda called the inferior doctors’ question a “self-interested effort”.

“We person made 1 happening wide again and again. We volition not let those who person garlanded rapists successful Hathras-Kathua-Unnao to usage our question successful the crippled of grabbing power. The radical volition not let it. Doctors person made it wide that this question has rejected immoderate divisive authorities from time 1 and volition proceed to bash truthful successful the aboriginal arsenic well,” the inferior doctors said connected Wednesday.

The inferior doctors’ Front besides alleged that the TMC authorities has rescinded its support to let them to clasp a normal connected September 27 to sermon the aboriginal roadmap for their movement.

The protesting inferior doctors withdrew their 11-day sit-in earlier the authorities wellness section office Swasthya Bhawan past week and partially rejoined exigency and indispensable services astatine state-run hospitals aft talks with the authorities government.

However, connected Wednesday, aft a gathering with representatives from 26 state-run and backstage aesculapian colleges, the Front alleged that mendacious cases person been slapped against those who expressed solidarity with their question and joined antiauthoritarian protests.

“The medication is seemingly pursuing a vindictive cognition adjacent aft we showed volition and flexibility to extremity the deadlock. Over 1 period has passed but determination is not overmuch demonstrative grounds of the probe into our workfellow sister’s rape and execution moving astatine the desired pace,” 1 of the protesting inferior doctors, Aniket Mahato, said.

— With PTI