Since AAP launched, the party has given us many stalwarts who have dominated national narratives with their unique perspectives. While Arvind Kejriwal is no shrinking violet when it comes to expressing his avant-garde opinions, former AAP leader Ashutosh was in league of his own when it came to observations with his own unique style and syntax which were too revolutionary to care for the mundane rules followed by those who read and write the Queen’s.
Sadly, Ashutosh is no longer part of the party, but AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh appears to have taken up the mantle from his former comrade.
The AAP Rajya Sabha MP took to Twitter to share an ANI picture of AIIMS docs protesting the heinous treatment meted out to a fellow doctor in Bengal, and wondered why the protesting docs – sporting bandages on their heads – were ‘hurt in the one place’.
While a lot of Twitters users pointed out they were doing what AAP had often done - dharna - others wondered if lack of IQ, GK and common sense was a prequisite to be an AAP member.
Check out the tweets below:
1. AIIMS docs
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ये ANI की फ़ोटो है या फिर फ़ोटो शाप है इसमें तो सारे डॉक्टर को एक ही जगह चोट लगी है pic.twitter.com/q8d6jLYYmh
— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) June 16, 2019
मुझे एक पत्रकार मित्र ने बताया एम्स के डॉक्टर नक़ली पट्टी बाँधकर विरोध कर रहे हैं कृपया ऐसे विरोध से बचें वरना माहौल ये बनेगा की हर जगह डॉक्टर मार खा रहे हैं। https://t.co/tUlC4n8whk
— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) June 16, 2019
Abe dimag hai ki nai mawali ke chamche
— Akshay | | अक्षय (@AkshayKatariyaa) June 16, 2019
Chup!! pic.twitter.com/jHenJSQMad
— 2xLqbCs) June 16, 2019
IQ, GK and command sense all should be missing to be an AAP member as a prerequisite
— Geetika Swami (@SwamiGeetika) June 16, 2019
Sahi karte hai log tumhare boss ko pelke
— babu bisleri (@PUNchayatix4) June 16, 2019
— साँड (@chuttasand) June 16, 2019
सर यह लोग वही कर रहे हैं जो आपकी पार्टी ने आजतक किया है (प्रोटेस्ट) और फिर भी आप नहीं समझ पाए ? आपको बचपन में इस जगह ही चोट लगी थी क्या, असली वाली ?
— The-Lying-Lama 2.0 (@KyaUkhaadLega) June 16, 2019
Dumbo don't you know what symbolism means ? https://t.co/A0TvnvBZ77
— Gita S. Kapoor (@GitaSKapoor) June 16, 2019
Inspired honge, sir. https://t.co/B1YfuedqhJ pic.twitter.com/aYmWh4p4Ua
— Kohli ViRatty (@YearOfRat) June 16, 2019
This was demonstration by doctors, to show solidarity with Bengal Junior doctors. https://t.co/iep4uSufxP
— Dr Dinesh Agarwal (@medico_activism) June 16, 2019
Worst thing is that he is a rajya sabha MP..... https://t.co/HKPDtbAYwv
— arpit goyal (@arpitgoyal55) June 16, 2019
There are parties with loud mouths , parties with corrupt neta and there is AAP https://t.co/Uy0uBkhSHl
— deepak ranjan (@deep157) June 16, 2019
2. Impasse continues
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The impasse at the state-run medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal entered the sixth day on Sunday, even as the agitating doctors asserted that they were open to talks with the government, the venue for which would be decided by a governing body of medical practitioners.
Earlier, the agitators had insisted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visit the city's NRS Medical College and Hospital, the epicentre of the agitation.
After an internal meeting late on Saturday, the doctors, who had turned down an invite for a closed-door meeting with Banerjee at the state secretariat, mellowed down and stated that they were ready to hold a dialogue in any form, but the venue of the meeting would be decided later.
"We will be deciding on our next step during a governing body meeting today. We are open to any dialogue as always. The venue for the meeting will be decided soon," a spokesperson of a joint forum of junior doctors told reporters here.
During a press conference at the state secretariat on Saturday, Banerjee urged the agitators to resume work and said her government had accepted all of their demands.
She also stressed that a group of doctors had met her and expressed their willingness to join duty, a claim vehemently refuted by the striking doctors.
During the meet, the chief minister emphasised that her government had not invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to get the doctors to resume work.
3. Didi threatens docs
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"We have laws, but we do not want to use them.... We are not going to take any stringent action against any of the agitating junior doctors and hamper their career," she said after the agitators did not turn up for a meeting at 5 pm.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an advisory, seeking a report on the ongoing stir and stating that it had received a number of representations from the medical fraternity from different parts of the country for their safety and security in view of the strike in West Bengal.
Bengal Governor K N Tripathi has written to Banerjee, advising her to take immediate steps to provide security to the medicos and find out a solution to the impasse.
The chief minister said she had spoken to the governor and apprised him of the steps taken by her government to resolve the matter.
Doctors across the state called for a strike after two of their colleagues were brutally assaulted at the NRS Medical College and Hospital by the family members of a patient, who died on Monday night.
The services continue to remain affected in the emergency wards, outdoor facilities and pathological units of many state-run hospitals and private medical facilities in the state, leaving several patients in the lurch.
The Calcutta High Court had, on Friday, refused to pass any interim order on the strike by the junior doctors.
It had also asked the state government to persuade the doctors to resume work.
