Mamata Banerjee and the protesting doctors
Protests by other junior doctors continue against the rape-murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College last month. They say they will continue their protest until their demands are met. However, after several attempts, when the junior doctors met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, it lasted for six hours.
Regarding the meeting, CM Mamata Banerjee said what are the demands of the doctors and how many of them have been agreed upon. He said that we held a meeting with junior doctors. He presented his points. He had 5 demands, the first of which was that the matter should be investigated by the CBI, which is being done. Apart from this, they had 4 demands, one of which was that the Principal Secretary of DME, DHS and Health should be removed. We explained to them how the administration would work if all were removed together. As per their demands we have decided to remove DME, DHS.
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# Look KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “We listened to the junior doctors…we tried to give them the changes and justice they demanded in the health department and the police department. We have decided to change the CP… in the health department pic.twitter.com/TCi957mGjD
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Changes in CP and Police
With this he further said that his next demand is that CP Vineet Goyal should be removed, Vineet Goyal said in the meeting that he will step down. Vineet will hand over the charge to the new CP after 4 pm tomorrow. There will be some more changes in the new CP and Police tomorrow, about which the Chief Secretary will inform after 4 pm. We have accepted 3 of their 4 demands. DC North will also be removed and the new DC will be decided tomorrow. Apart from this, full attention will also be given to security.
99 percent of demands accepted
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also said that we listened to the junior doctors. We tried to give them the changes and justice they demanded in the health department and the police department. We have decided to change CP. In the health department, he talked about removal of 3 officers, out of which we have agreed to remove 2 officers. We have accepted 99 percent of their demands.
