Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday said that the “mass resignation” of senior doctors in various state-run medical colleges and hospitals, expressing solidarity with the junior doctors who are holding an indefinite hunger strike, has no legal value. Nine junior doctors started an indefinite fast on October 5 demanding justice for the trainee doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered in RG Kar Hospital on August 9. (PTI) Meanwhile, one more junior doctor had to be rushed to the hospital under critical conditions after he fell ill on the seventh day of the hunger strike even as two more medics joined the strike on Saturday. “These mass resignations, as they are being described, actually have no legal value. Resignation is a subject between the employer and the employee to be discussed in terms of specific service rules. If any individual wants to tender resignation from a government service, in terms of the given services rules, the individual has to write to the employer. This kind of a generic letter has no legal standing,” Alapan …