Agitating doctors in West Bengal softened their stand on Sunday, leaving it to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to decide the meeting venue with them, but insisted that it should be held in the presence of media and recorded.
The chief minister is learnt to have agreed to a meeting on Monday at an auditorium adjacent to the state secretariat.
"The chief minister has agreed for the meeting tomorrow. We have invited two representatives from each medical college and hospital," a state government source told PTI.
Banerjee, however, is not "comfortable" with their proposal of media presence inside the meeting venue, he said.
"The meeting could either be held at the auditorium or at the chief minister's office. We have passed on this message to the junior doctors," the source said.
Banerjee had on Saturday invited the agitators for closed-door talks, but the offer was turned down by them.
Talking to reporters after a two-and-half-hour-long meeting on Sunday of its governing body, a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors said, "We are keen to end this impasse. We are ready to hold talks with the chief minister at a venue of her choice, provided it is held in the open, in the presence of media persons, and not behind closed doors."
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