Protesting doctors, Mamata Banerjee and the President.
Junior doctors have been protesting for the last 34 days demanding justice in the Kolkata rape case. Attempts to negotiate between state CM Mamata Banerjee and doctors to end the protests and strike have failed. After missing the meeting in Nabanna on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee apologized to the people of the state and even offered to resign. At the same time, doctors are also adamant on the agitation and this time the protesting junior doctors have written to President Draupadi Murmu seeking his intervention, demanding justice.
Let us tell you that junior doctors are continuously protesting with the demand of justice in the case of rape and murder of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College on August 9. The doctors were appealed to the Supreme Court to return to work. Since then there have been continuous efforts to negotiate between the state government and the protesting doctors, but the negotiation efforts have not been successful so far.
On Thursday too, the meeting of junior doctors with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the State Secretariat Naban failed. As a result, the protesting doctors again returned to Salt Lake and continued their protest against Arogya Bhavan. The doctors have warned that they may protest for the next 33 days demanding justice.
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As the doctors could not find any solution to their demand, they took an alternative route. He has sent a letter to President Draupadi Murmu to break the deadlock.
The agitators have sent a copy of the letter not only to the President but also to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This letter has also been sent to the Union Health Minister. Regarding sending this letter, the junior doctors said that they had gone to Nabanna. However, based on his experience on Thursday evening, he feels that contacting the President is absolutely necessary to break the impasse.
The agitating doctors wrote a letter to the President
On this day, doctors sent a four-page letter. In the letter, the junior doctors mentioned everything that happened after the death of the lady doctor on August 9. The doctors have said in their letter that though the security of RG Kar Medical College is safe, but like other medical colleges in the state (Sagardatta, SSKM), attacks also happen in hospitals.
Doctors’ association leader Utpal Banerjee said, “We have already written to the President informing him that he should look into the matter. The junior doctors sent the letter again. It is true that junior doctors are completely disappointed with the role of the state administration. And if he is disappointed, he will go to the President. This is normal.”
Senior lawyer and former Kolkata Municipal Corporation mayor Vikas Ranjan Bhattacharya said, “Anyone can petition the President from the Centre. But the demands of the doctors’ movement are linked to public interest relations. And the state government has to solve this problem. However, due to the incompetence of the state government, this movement is being prolonged. For this reason, doctors have every right to seek intervention from the President on this issue.
