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Junior docs' body warns of resuming cease-work if demands not met by Oct 21

The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors spearheading the movement in support of their demands...


The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors spearheading the movement in support of their demands on the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, has cautioned the state government of resuming their total cease-work protest unless their demands in the matter are not fulfilled by October 21.

WBJDF representative and one of the lead faces of the movement by junior doctors on this issue, Debasish Halder told media persons on Friday night that they are compelled to take this decision since the state government is reluctant to show a compassionate approach in fulfilling their demands in the matter

“If the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee does not accept our demands by Monday, from Tuesday we will be forced to go for total cease-work at medical colleges & hospitals from Tuesday,” Halder said on Friday night.

He announced this decision after a meeting between the junior and senior doctors. “The decision was only after consultation with their senior colleagues,” said Halder.

A mega rally christened “Nyaybichar Yatra (Rally for Justice)”, seeking justice for the lady doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital who became a victim of ghastly rape & murder of a junior doctor in August this year, had started on Saturday evening.

As scheduled the rally started from the residence of the victim at Panihati in North 24 Parganas district with its destination as Esplanade at central Kolkata, where seven junior doctors are on fast-unto-death agitation in support of their demands over the ghastly rape and murder.

Many people also joined the rally in the midway and as the rally proceeded towards the destination its size grew in numbers. The protesting junior doctors are scheduled to addressed the gathering at the end of the rally at Esplanade and also announce their future course of action in the matter.

“As we have always maintained the common people are the source of our strength. Today the rally proves again how the common people have spontaneously extended their support towards our justified movement,” said a junior doctor participating at the rally. 

Earlier in the day, the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has issued an appeal to the junior doctors on hunger-strike to withdraw their protests and return to duty. 

A crucial meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee issued an appeal to the junior doctors on hunger strike to withdraw their protests and return between the Chief Minister and the representatives of West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body spearheading the movement in the matter, is scheduled on Monday at 5 p.m.

Earlier, Sayantani Ghosh Hazra, a junior doctor of K.P.C. Medical College & Hospital and who is one of the six doctors initiating the hunger strike at Esplanade since the evening of October 5, raised a question on how the Chief Minister could get swayed in Durga Puja celebration when so many junior doctors are on hunger- strike.

“Does not she have any sense of humanity? Could she not visit us just once and assure us of fulfilling our demands” Sayantani said.

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