Kolkata on Sunday returned to its usual self with protest rallies demanding "justice" for the victim doctor of the RG Kar Medical College being taken out from all parts of the city a day after the much talked about talks between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and agitating junior doctors failed to take off following three hours of negotiations over the live streaming of the dialogue.
Two large rallies of the junior doctors started from two points and met at the Central Park in Salt Lake before marching towards the sit-in site and Swasthya Bhavan whereas the ex-students, mostly women from a number of schools in central and North Kolkata took out rallies demanding "justice for RG Kar."Most pertinently the ex service men to the ranks of Army Brigadiers and Admirals of Indian Navy too took put procession demanding justice for the victim and a safe environment for women.
"If a doctor is not safe in her hospital which is her second home then who is safe and where," asked Major Samanta (retired) adding how he too was worried about his own daughter who was presently pursuing management course.
"Consider this inclement weather … there is deep depression not only in the skies but also in our minds … the issue is far bigger than what we all think … if we cannot give justice to our Abhaya (the victim lady doctor) then we will be a failed society … then where is the need for the police force to be paid from our tax-payers money," said Dr Debashis Pramanik one of the agitating doctors.
A lady doctor said, "the Government is asking us to return to festivities … but what can be a bigger festival than to get soaked in rains for the sake of justice and to secure the society for women in future."
Meanwhile in a related development Bengal State Minister for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya rejected the claims made by the junior doctors that she had turned them out of the Chief Minister's residence. "The Chief Minister had called them for talks and how can I ask them to go … but the way the things were delayed talks fizzled out," she said adding "the Chief Minister has already said that she has no problem to talk so that the doctors can go back to their work."
