KOLKATA: The first serious attempt at a conversation by the Mamata Banerjee government was rebuffed by striking junior doctors late on Friday, with the agitators sticking to their demand that the CM come down to the NRS Medical College and Hospital campus to listen to their grievances.A general-body meeting, including junior doctors from all city-based medical colleges, ended around 11.45 p.m. The doctors, protesting against the murderous assault on some NRS interns on Monday by the bereaved kin of a patient, decided to meet again on Saturday but - as things stood on Friday - most of them were not willing to "compromise beyond a point".Live: Complete coverage of West Bengal doctors' strike updatesThe talks offer from the government came on Friday, with a message to the NRS agitators to "personally" meet the chief minister at Nabanna, the state secretariat. The message was relayed by five senior doctors - "held in high esteem" by the medical fraternity and "trusted" by the establishment - and delivered by the state director of medical education, following which the junior doctors met at NRS's U N Brahmachari Building auditorium.The interlocutors admitted that the talks seemed to have "broken down" but insisted that the initiation of a dialogue between the highest level of the state government and the agitators itself was a step forward.The attempt at finding middle ground followed a day of dramatic developments in which the state government found itself coming under immense pressure from three directions - the governor's office, the Calcutta high court and the centre - to find a solution to the impasse in Bengal's public-sector healthcare system.Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Friday sought a meeting with the CM. "I have tried to contact the CM, I have called her but, till this moment, there is no response," Tripathi said around 7 p.m. while leaving the Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, after meeting Paribaha Mukhopadhyay, one of the NRS interns bashed up by the bereaved kin of a patient on the hospital campus on Monday. It was Monday's assault on Mukhopadhyay and his colleagues that sparked the confrontation between doctors and the government."If she calls on me, then we will discuss the matter. I have called her, let her come," the governor added.The agitators have insisted that Banerjee herself come down to the hospital to meet Mukhopadhyay; the governor's visit itself would have acted as some degree of pressure on the government.Earlier on Friday, the Calcutta HC asked the state government to persuade the striking doctors to resume work. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice TBN Radhakrishnan and Justice Suvra Ghosh, directed the government to apprise it within a week of the steps taken following Monday's attack. CJ Radhakrishnan also reminded the striking doctors of their Hippocratic oath they take to ensure patients' welfare. The bench fixed June 21 for the next hearing of the petition filed by Kunal Saha of People for Better Treatment.