Kolkata, Jan 1 || Service Doctors' Forum, an association of medical practitioners in West Bengal, has threatened a major protest demonstration against the Election Commission of India (ECI), for its decision to issue summons to clinically ailing patients and senior citizens asking them to be present at the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters' list.
Incidentally, the Forum played a leading role in spearheading the mass movement on the issue of the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August 2024.
Sources said on Thursday that the organisation has decided to launch a movement against the ECI in the New Year to protest against the harassment of elderly people in the name of calling them for the SIR hearing.
Since the beginning of the hearing process in the state, there have been reports of people suffering from various conditions.