Kolkata, Oct 10
The fast-unto-death agitation by junior doctors in support of their demands on the rape and murder of their colleagues in R. G. Kar Medical College & Hospital entered the sixth day on Thursday.
The crucial meeting between the junior doctors and the West Bengal government, which continued after Wednesday midnight, failed to reach any conclusion.
The junior doctors could not get written assurance about the timeline as to when their demands would be fulfilled.
The impasse continued even after over 250 senior doctors, including members of the medico-academic fraternity from state-run medical colleges and hospitals, tendered mass resignations from their services during the last two days.
More mass resignations from other medical colleges were expected in the coming days.
The resigning doctors said that if needed, they would forward their resignations individually to the state government.
Meanwhile, responding to the appeal of the junior doctors and some other acclaimed personalities from civil society, the revellers on the occasion of the festival days, took some time out from their pandal hopping schedule and visited the hunger strike dais, expressing solidarity with the protesting junior doctors.