The Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) will light candles at their sit-in protest in Esplanade on Christmas Eve and call the day “Droher Borodin” (Christmas of Protest), a member of the platform said on Sunday.

The doctors’ platform will also collect signatures from visitors to the protest venue in the Metro channel, the stretch of Chowringee Road opposite Metro cinema, in support of their three demands.

One of the demands is that the CBI submit a supplementary chargesheet against former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the medical college on August 9.

The second demand is that the state government allow the prosecution of Ghosh and former RG Kar house staff Ashis Pandey in a case related to alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The third demand is to bring all those involved in a “larger conspiracy” behind the rape and murder within the purview of the probe.

“We will light candles here on December 24 evening. It will be Droher Borodin. We wanted to organise a rally but were hesitant because the high court had directed that the number of people at the protest venue could not cross 250. We will not do anything that violates the court’s order,” said Tamonas Chaudhuri, a member of the JPD.

“We will also ask visitors to our protest venue to sign and pledge their support for our demands. There are plans to ask former students to organise sit-in protests at medical colleges,” said Chaudhuri.

The JPD started their sit-in late on Friday after Calcutta High Court passed an order granting the doctors conditional permission to go ahead with their protest plan. The sit-in will continue till December 26.

While allowing the protest, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the high court asked the JPD to ensure that no one delivered an inciting speech that could affect law and order.

He also asked the police and the doctors’ platform to arrive at a consensus if the police wanted the crowd at the venue to be reduced to prevent traffic congestion.

A JPD member said every moment of the protest was being recorded by CCTV cameras and a cameraman sent by the police.

“If we slip on any of the conditions, the administration will use it against us in court when we plan another protest. We will not do anything like that,” the doctor said.

Some of the popular faces of the junior doctors’ protests on the RG Kar issue — Kinjal Nanda, Asfakulla Naiya and Pulastya Acharya — visited the Metro channel on Sunday.

“There has been no progress in meeting our demands since we ended our hunger strike in October. The senior doctors had no option but to start the sit-in and we have no option but to show solidarity with them because of the government’s inaction,” said Acharya.