Mamata makes a move, visits protest site & urges doctors to return to work. 'Came here as your Didi'

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pulled a surprise on the protesting doctors Saturday when she reached their protest site on a holiday, in an attempt to end the stalemate that has cornered the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government...

The incessant rains since Friday hasnt deterred the junior doctors, who huddled under makeshift tarpaulin camps all night as the protests entered 33 days..

This is the first time the West Bengal chief minister has met the junior doctors on protest since last month when the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor was reported at the government-run R.G. Kar Medical and Hospital..

The junior doctors have placed five demands before the Trinamool Congress government, including the resignation of Kolkata Police chief Vineet Kumar Goyal; removal of Health Secretary, Director Medical Education, Director Health Studies; disciplinary action against DCP North & Central; and suspension of former R.G. Kar principal Dr..

Secondly, the government has understood the discussions with the junior doctors will be an ugly one because till the time you dont acknowledge the problem you cannot find a solution and, in this case, they are the problem..

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