Mamata's nephew, relatives of two more TMC leaders back doctors

KOLKATA: Relatives of at least three senior Trinamool Congress leaders, including chief minister Mamata Banerjee, have come out in support of the striking doctors in the last two days.
While Banerjee's nephew Abesh Banerjee, a junior doctor at a private hospital, was seen leading a protest at NRS Hospital on Thursday, Dr Shabba Hakim, Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim's daughter, took to Facebook on Wednesday night to say she was "deeply ashamed at the inaction and the silence of our leader".
A self-proclaimed "TMC supporter", Dr Shabba created a stir by posting a message on Facebook in which she referred to violence at the NRS Hospital, where junior doctors were beaten up earlier this week after a 75-year-old patient died of heart attack. Her Facebook message read: "....Please question the government as in why the police officers posted in government hospitals do little to nothing to protect doctors? Please question them that when 2 truckload of goon showed up why wasn't back up sent immediately? Please question why goons are still surrounding hospitals and beating up doctors?"
Similarly, Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar's doctor son, vented his ire on Facebook when he said it was "unacceptable" how 200 people could enter a government hospital and "literally kill a 23-year-old doctor". He also wondered why only five of the 200 accused persons were arrested so far. He said he felt "it was sickening that the brightest minds of our state sit in the open and demand protection against lynching, and it was reprehensible that some people were trying to colour doctors along political lines when they give their life to serving people".
However Baidyanath edited his post later.
CM had refused to react to these comments, saying they were "children".
Unlike the CM's hardened stance on Thursday at SSKM hospital, party's secretary-general, Partha Chatterjee - also the state education minister - appealed to striking junior doctors to "keep aside" misunderstandings and withdraw their agitation. In a Facebook post, Chatterjee said all their grievances could be solved through discussions with the government.
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