A section of junior doctors on Friday slammed Bengal's leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for saying that those who raised "Go Back" slogans at his party colleague Agnimitra Paul were not junior doctors.

The protesting doctors said they would not let anyone exploit their protests for political gains.

The assertion came on a day the Trinamool Congress showed a video and suggested that a section of junior doctors was taking support from the BJP office near Swasthya Bhavan.

“We will not let anyone use this movement for their political benefit. The leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, had said that those who had shouted 'Go Back' at Agnimitra Paul, the BJP MLA, were not junior doctors. We condemn his comments," said a junior doctor.

At a news conference outside Swasthya Bhavan on Friday evening, the junior doctors demanded an overhaul of health service delivery in the state.

"We want the infrastructure to be strengthened so patients from primary, block health centres are not forced to go to other places for minor ailments, losing a day's job," said a junior doctor. "An effective referral system should be created so that patients do not have to visit one hospital after another."

The junior doctors also demanded elections to students' unions at medical colleges, setting up of a resident doctors' association and free and fair elections to the West Bengal Medical Council.

On Wednesday, the Joint Platform of Doctors and the Indian Medical Association, Bengal chapter, had demanded that the state medical council be dissolved and fresh elections held.

At Friday's news briefing, the junior doctors reiterated their five demands — identification of all culprits involved in the RG Kar rape and murder and their arrest, the resignation of Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal, disciplinary action against former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, ensuring the safety of doctors and all healthcare workers, and the resignation of the health secretary, director of medical education and the director of health services.