The doctors have been holding a sit-in outside the West Bengal Health Department's headquarters in Salt Lake, demanding justice for their colleague, who was raped and murdered on August 9th at RG Kar Medical College. Their protest, which has halted healthcare services at state-run institutions, is now in its 34th day.
On July 21, while addressing her party’s ‘Martyrs Day’ rally in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee had said that West Bengal will surely keep its door open for ‘helpless people’ who have been affected by violence in Bangladesh and offer them shelter.