Mamata Banerjee Offers Resignation Amid Doctors’ Protest
I am ready to resign in the interest of the people. I do not want the post of Chief Minister. I want justice for Talutma. And I want common people to get medical treatment,” Mamata Banerjee said at a press conference after a delegation of junior doctors waited for two hours.
New Delhi: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stood by junior doctors who were invited to the state secretariat for a meeting today, saying in an emotional speech that she was not happy with the top post in the state and that she would resign. Ready to give up. public interest”
Assuring the doctors that no action would be taken against them, he said the government was always open to dialogue. His anger was directed at those, who he indicated were masterminding the protests with vested interests.
Pointing to the proliferation of anti-government messages on social media, he said, “Our government has been insulted. Common people do not know that it has any political colour”.
People behind the political ring, he said, “don’t want justice, they want a chair”.
I am ready to resign in the interest of the people. I do not want the post of Chief Minister. I want justice for Talutma. And I want common people to get medical treatment,” the chief minister said at a press conference after a delegation of junior doctors waited for two hours.
The delegation of doctors had reached the gate of the secretariat for the meeting which started at 5 pm. But they refused to enter because the government had refused one of their demands, live telecast of the proceedings. The Mamata Banerjee Offers Resignation Amid Doctors’ Protest had said that the government cannot allow live transmission as the matter is pending in the Supreme Court.
The government accepted all the rest – including the presence of more members, 33 instead of 15, and then an additional member in the visiting delegation. Regarding live transmission, he said that he cannot allow it but the proceedings will be recorded. Mamata Banerjee But it proved a stumbling block to a meeting that many had hoped would end the deadlock and herald the start of normalcy.
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Ms. Banerjee said the doctors were only following instructions. “I know a lot of people in the delegation were interested in the conversation. But two of the three people were giving instructions from the outside. We had all that. We could see it because it was recording the press. , who were standing right behind… giving instructions – ‘Don’t talk, don’t go to meetings’, Mamata Banerjee said.
The chief minister had waited outside while the debate continued – and he pointed out, it was not the first time. At the end of two hours, in an impromptu press conference, he said, “I apologize for the sentiments of the people of Bengal. You thought this matter would be resolved today”.
Then she folded her hands and said, “I have been sitting here for two hours, I waited yesterday too, not only me, but also the higher Mamata Banerjee officers against whom they keep complaining all the time”.
And they will wait, he said. “Uttar Pradesh, he said, took action.” We also have ESMA (Essential Services Restoration Act). But I won’t do that. I am not in favor of emergency”.
His only request, Mamata Banerjee said, was that doctors get back to work, because people are suffering — those who need heart or kidney operations, those who need urgent care, such as heart attack patients or A pregnant woman who is about to give birth.
But there was a sting in the story: “If the families of these patients (affected by the protests) want answers from us, we will be ready for it,” he said. The government has already claimed that 27 people have died because health care was damaged during Mamata Banerjee the protests – a charge denied by doctors.
I have tried my best to talk to doctors. I apologize to the people of Bengal, the people of the country and the world who are supporting him. Please support them. We also want justice – for Tilutma, for the patients of Bengal who are suffering,” the Mamata Banerjee added.
Today’s meeting ended after more than a month between doctors and the state government over the August 9 rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College. And supporting former principal Sandeep Ghosh. The former principal has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI in a corruption case.
