Kolkata, Sep 12 (Reporter) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday made a fresh appeal to the agitating junior medics to resume work, reminding them of the Supreme Court directive after talks between her government and the agitating doctors failed to take off again. The stalemate continued after the medics demanded the meeting be telecast live from the state secretariat Nabanna but the government insisted that can not be done since the case was sub-judice and the CBI was probing the rape and murder of a 31-year-old lady medic at the RG Kar hospital on August 9. After waiting for over two hours, the chief minister held a media conference and left Nabanna around 7 pm. Banerjee said: "We very much sympathise with the agitating doctors, as we want justice for Tillotoma but at the same time We are answerable to the common people who are facing trouble for not getting treatment for over one month." Banerjee claimed 27 people had died, over 7 lakh people were deprived of treatment and over 1500 patients were waiting to be operated on. The chief minister said barring three-four junior doctors, the others wanted to talk to the government. She claimed some of the medics were acting at the behest of other forces, who wanted "the chair". However, the medics denied the allegation. Thirty-four junior medics came ti the gate of Nabanna and signed the register for entry, but refused to meet the chief minister after state chief secretary Manoj Pant and DGP Rajiv Kumar clarified the meeting can be videographed and documented but the same could not be telecast live. The apex court on Monday ordered the junior medics to resume work by 5 PM on Tuesday and left it to the Bengal government to deal with the striking junior doctors. "We have been waiting for two hours to meet our brothers and sisters among the doctors. We had written to them and they said they would come, so we made these arrangements. The Chief Secretary, the Director-General of Police, Home Secretary... were all here," Banerjee said. "I have waited for two days for them to come...but we respect their sentiment and forgive them and appeal again to them to return to work because the government is answerable to the people in the state." "I do not believe in enforcing the ESMA (Essential Services Maintenance Act) and other repressive measures. We have humanity and tell the doctors to return to work as they are God (to the ailing)," Banerjee said. The government had agreed to receive a 34-member delegation instead of 15 specified in an earlier mail. but refused to have a live telecast of the meeting as the matter was sub-judice. Earlier, Pant and Rajiv Kumar explained that such a meeting can not be telecast live as demanded by the medics and remarked "Everything has a limit". "We e-mailed the doctors in the afternoon and they came... we allowed all 34 to attend the meeting. But they demanded live-streaming... we said this cannot be allowed. We have said we will record it," Pant said. Rajeev Kumar said the doctors' demand to live-stream the meeting "seems unreasonable", and pointed out, "No formal meet is ever streamed live. We (also) have no issue with the number and allowed all 34 to attend as they requested." After the CM left the secretariat, the medics, who came in a bus, waited for another half an hour and then left for Swastha Bhavan (headquarters of the state health department) outside which they have been spending nights on the streets for the past three days in support of a host of demands. The demands nclude the resignation of state health secretary N S Nigam and two other high officials of the department; the resignation of City police chief Vineet Goyal and two other top cops; security and safety at their workplaces, besides the creation of an atmosphere congenial for giving quality treatment to the patients. The medics before returning to their sit-in, wondered while talking to the reporters what was the problem in having a live telecast if the Supreme Court can allow live streaming of its proceedings on the rape and murder of the lady medic...////...