West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
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Junior doctors continue their protest over RG Kar Medical College & Hospital rape-murder case at the Swasthya Bhavan
ED carries out searches at residence of former R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh's father
Enforcement Directorate carrying out search operation in connection with RG Kar Medical College & Hospital financial irregularities case at several places in Kolkata and suburban areas including the residence of former principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital - Sandip Ghosh's father, Satya Prakash Ghosh.
We have all the discussion channels open, but our prerequisite conditions aren't unfair... We will continue our protest: Dr Arnab Mukhopadhya says on junior doctors continue their protest
"We have seen that a public meeting was organised by the state govt. MoS Health (West Bengal) Chandrima Bhattacharya was there, he said certain things including - that he wanted an open heart discussion with us. We are also waiting for that. It would be better and we have demanded that the discussion be live telecasted to maintain transparency... He said that he is disheartened, I want to say that he is disheartened while sitting in the AC room while we are here. We have all the discussion channels open, but our prerequisite conditions aren't unfair... We will continue our protest."
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Junior doctors on Thursday continued their sit-in outside the West Bengal Health Department’s office as well as their 'cease work' over the alleged rape and murder of a young medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The agitating doctors have been demonstrating outside ‘Swathya Bhavan’, the state health department headquarters, for over 40 hours. The government had Wednesday rejected their demands for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's presence and a live broadcast as preconditions for talks to resolve the impasse.
A large number of police personnel have been deployed in and around ‘Swathya Bhavan’ at Salt Lake, and traffic movement is being regulated.
"We will continue our agitation and ‘cease work’. But, we did not want to continue this. The state government is not open to holding any meeting with us. And, we want to make it clear that there is no politics behind our stir," one of the protesting doctors told PTI.
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Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the epicentre of the anti-rape movement that began in the wake of the rape and murder of a junior doctor there, saw a bomb scare on Thursday.
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Bengal chief secretary restricts doctors' delegation to 15 people in fresh letter, confirms CM's presence at proposed talks
In a fresh invitation to the agitating junior doctors, the West Bengal government on Thursday gave a 5 pm slot for a meeting to end the impasse over the RG Kar hospital incident, but rejected the protesters’ demand for live telecast of the talks.
This is the third offer from the state government for talks in the last two days, with the agitators rejecting the previous two proposals and setting concrete conditions for the meet.
While the government accepted the doctors' demand for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's presence at the meeting, it turned down their prerequisite for live telecast of the talks, and restricted the delegation's strength to not more than 15 people as against the protesters' wish for 30 members.
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We stick to our demand for live telecast of meeting with Bengal govt, have nothing to hide from people: Agitating junior doctors
Kolkata rape-murder: Agitating doctors reach state secretariat to meet Mamata to end R G Kar hospital impasse
Escorted by a pilot police vehicle, the delegation reached the secretariat at around 5.25 pm, some 25 minutes past the scheduled time of commencement of the meeting.
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I am ready to resign from the Chief Minister of West Bengal. I am not concerned about the post. I want justice, I am only concerned about justice getting served: Mamata Banerjee as impasse continues over doctors' protests