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Kolkata doctor rape case: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to live stream a meeting with protesting doctors who had been waiting for over an hour in heavy rain near her residence in Kalighat. As the impasse continued, CM Banerjee suggested, “If you are not willing to meet without live streaming, you can come to my house for a cup of tea.”
The doctors also requested that a videographer be allowed inside the Bengal CM’s premises to record the meeting. The Bengal CM refused to allow this. The TMC supremo cited the Supreme Court hearing of the Kolkata doctor rape case to refuse to keep any official record of the protesting doctors.
“Since the RG Car case is in court, we cannot allow live streaming,” Mamata said.
“I will prepare the minutes and sign them too,” the Bengal chief minister said as she tried to convince the agitating doctors to attend the meeting without live streaming.
The CM slammed the protesting doctors and said that they have ‘insulted’ him as he had requested to meet him on September 14 but refused to enter his house. “I have waited for 2 hours,” the CM said.
Mamata Banerjee said that the West Bengal government can record the video of the meeting, not the protesting doctors. She said that the video will be handed over to the protesting doctors only after taking permission from the Supreme Court.
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The protesting doctors in Kolkata said they had not come to the CM’s residence to discuss any matter that was “sub judice”, and so refused to understand why Mamata Banerjee was refusing to do so.
CM Mamata Banerjee asked protesting doctors to ‘avoid getting wet’ in the rain, gave them new clothes. She also asked the doctors why they were not using the umbrellas being provided by security forces around their houses.
CM Mamata said that the protesting doctors had not informed that 40 people would come to their residence. She said that her house cannot accommodate 40 people at a time. “You will get the minutes of the meeting signed by me,” the CM assured the protesting doctors.
What did the protesting doctors say in Kolkata?
Dr. Arnab Mukherjee, a junior doctor who was part of the delegation that met CM Mamata Banerjee, says, “We had requested for live streaming of this meeting. The Chief Secretary said that live streaming is not possible as this is the CM’s residence. We told the Chief Secretary that we want live streaming so that transparency is maintained.”
“We also said please consider our videographer so that he can record the meeting. But CM’s security was shooting the video and they said it is for security reasons. We want live streaming so that there is proper transparency of this discussion and meeting and other junior doctors present at the protest site can also know what happened in this meeting. So we are waiting in front of the main gate of CM residence as we want live streaming of this meeting,” said the protesting doctor.
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