The junior doctors protesting over the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case in Kolkata ended their hunger strike after a two-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat Nabanna on Monday night.
At least 17 junior doctors on Monday left for Nabanna in Howrah district to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over their various demands as their hunger strike continues over the alleged rape and murder a female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya has claimed that the Trinamool Congress is feeling pressured by the protest by junior doctors over the RG Kar rape and murder case and wants to suppress their protest.
Junior doctors on Saturday held a 21 km protest march in Kolkata demanding justice for the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder incident victim.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday invited the protesting doctor to meet her on Monday and appealed to them to call off the fast and protest and resume duty.
The Indian Medical Association on Tuesday announced that the IMA Junior Doctors Network across the nation will be fasting in solidarity with the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front.
The Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) of AIIMS, New Delhi, has written an urgent letter to the President of India, requesting immediate intervention in the ongoing hunger strike by doctors in West Bengal.
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday received the memorandum from the Junior Doctor's front on their concern about the RG Kar rape and murder case.
As the junior doctor's protest continues, demanding justice in the RG Kar rape-murder case, Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Monday said that junior doctor don't want the case to be resolved.
The body of the 31-year-old doctor was found at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Since then thousands of junior doctors in the state have been on a strike.