Amaravati, Aug. 25 -- Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday urged Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to immediately hold talks with protesting junior doctors and resolve their demands, saying the ongoing strike was affecting medical services in government hospitals.

In a post on X, Reddy said nearly 9,000 interns, postgraduate doctors, super-speciality doctors and senior residents from 19 government medical colleges across the state had been protesting for the past two weeks over the revision of their stipends.

He said, "@ncbn garu, will you force junior doctors, who save lives, onto the streets and put the lives of poor patients at risk? Nearly 9,000...