NEW DELHI:
West Bengal
chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday offered to resign as the standoff with protesting
junior doctors
over the
Kolkata doctor rape-murder case
continued.
“For people’s sake, I am ready to resign. I am not concerned about the post. I want justice, I am only concerned about justice getting served,” CM Mamata Banerjee said while addressing the media on the deadlock with the doctors.
“I also apologise to the people of Bengal who expected the impasse to end today,” the CM said.
Putting onus on the doctors who did not turn up for the meeting at 5 pm, Mamata said, “27 people have died, 7 lakh patients are suffering because of junior doctors’ cease work. I tried thrice to hold talks. We have been waiting for over two hours to meet our doctor brothers and sister who were invited here. We wrote them a letter and they wrote us back assuring that they will come… Only after receiving their confirmation, we invited them but it’s been two hours and there is no communication from them yet. We asked them to come with an open mind and talk about any issue. Solutions can only be found through dialogues”
“I am still saying that I will not take any action against them for not coming and making us wait for two hours. I will forgive them because being elders, it is our responsibility to forgive our younger ones,” the CM added.
