Jr doctors called again for meeting at CM's residence today at 5, no LIVE streaming

West Bengal government has once again and for the final time invited the agitating junior doctors for a meeting on Monday. Chief Secretary Manoj Pant sent an email inviting the same delegationh which arrived at the Chief Minister's Kalighat residence by 5:00 pm.

Manoj Pant also added that there will be no live streaming and videography of the meeting. Instead, minutes of the meeting will be recorded and will be signed by both the parties. All earlier meetings were failed to start over this demand only bu the junior doctors.

This comes after talks between the CM and doctors broke down twice, at Nabanna (state secretariat) and Banerjee’s residence, in recent days over the state government refusing doctors’ demand to have the meeting live-streamed. The move also comes a day ahead of the Supreme Court’s next hearing on the RG Kar Medical Hospital rape and murder case.

Notably, Banerjee had visited protestors near Swasthya Bhavan to appeal to them on Sunday in an attempt to resolve their impasse, saying that her “post” as CM does not matter as much as “people’s posts” and that she “needs time” to probe the officials the protestors were demanding the resignation of.