"Accepted All, But...": Kolkata Doctors After Talks Prove Non-Starter Again

"We kept waiting in the rain, but we had to return without any solution and all the junior doctors were disheartened," said Dr Aqeeb, who was part of the delegation that went to meet Ms Banerjee.

The protesting junior doctors of Bengal have alleged that they had accepted all the conditions laid down by the state government -- to the extent of scaling down their demands from live transmission of the meeting to accepting the minutes -- but were turned down by the government at the last minute.

"We kept waiting in the rain, but we had to return without any solution and all the junior doctors were disheartened," said Dr Aqeeb, who was part of the delegation that went to meet Ms Banerjee.

The meeting was scheduled yesterday after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee went to the protest site at the health secretariat and invited them to her home.