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RG Kar Rape-Murder: Protesting Doctors Ask Agnimitra Paul To ‘Go Back’, Here’s What The BJP Lea

Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Defying Supreme Court's directive to resume their duties by September 10, doctors continued their quest for justice in Bengal as the protests over the rape and murder of the trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital entered its 33rd day. The junior doctors also continued their sit-in protest outside the Swasthya Bhawan in Kolkata for the second day on Wednesday. Senior BJP leader Agnimitra Paul, who was spotted near the headquarters of the health department, was greeted with the chants of "go back" by the protesting junior doctors staging sit-in there today. It is being alleged that Paul, escorted by her security personnel and supporters, tried to enter the protest site, when the incident took place. However, Paul has claimed that she was not there to join the doctors' ...
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Striking junior doctors defy SC deadline, spurn Mamata’s talks invite | India News – Times of India

KOLKATA: Junior doctors protesting the RG Kar hospital rape-murder rejected on Tuesday the Bengal govt's invitation to discuss their grievances with a designated team at the state secretariat and decided to continue their strike in defiance of the 5pm deadline Supreme Court had set for them to return to work.The Mamata Banerjee govt's message to West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF) was sent out around 6pm, by which time the doctors had already shifted the protest from their respective medical college campuses to Swasthya Bhavan, the state health department's headquarters in Kolkata's Salt Lake. Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said the CM waited at Nabanna, the secretariat, until 7.30pm for representatives of the junior doctors to turn up.The junior doctors said they felt "humiliated" ...