Ready to resign, Mamata says amid standoff with docs

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she is ready to resign amid the standoff with doctors.

As the doctors persisted on their demand for live-streaming of their meeting with the CM, Mamata said, “We waited for two hours for meeting with junior doctors, but they didn't enter the venue.”

As the RG Kar case is sub-judice, meeting with junior doctors cannot be live-streamed as demanded by them, Mamata said.

“We had arrangements to video-record meeting with junior doctors, we could have shared that with them with SC's permission,” she said.

“I tried thrice to hold talks with junior doctors to end the RG Kar stalemate,” the CM said, adding that 27 people had died and 7 lakh patients were suffering because of junior doctors' ‘cease work'.

“I will still not take any action against the agitating junior doctors, will forgive them since we are elders,” she said.

“I apologise to the Bengal people who expected an end to the RG Kar impasse today,” she said, adding, “For people's sake, I am ready to resign; I also want justice for the murdered RG Kar hospital doctor.”