West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she waited for two hours for a meeting with junior doctors protesting over the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, but the latter did not turn up even though they were in the state secretariat, Nabanna.
The West Bengal government had invited junior doctors to come to Nabanna to attend a proposed meeting for the restoration of normalcy to ensure treatment and health services to the common people. The doctors reached the state secretariat, but demanded live telecast of their meeting.
The chief minister said that there were plans of recording the meeting but the dialogue could take not place as doctors insisted for live telecast.
West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant said the state government tried its best to make the doctors understand. “We have explained to them what all arrangements have been made. We have made recording arrangements so that the entire proceedings are well documented. There should be trust between the two parties,” he said while addressing reporters.
“We want to listen to them. There should not be any difference or opinion in it, there is no conflict situation. Both of us are working with the same objective. So I don’t understand why they are feeling that unless there is live streaming we will not go to the meeting. We want to document everything and discuss it with them properly.”