New Delhi: Students and interns of five medical colleges here went on an indefinite strike today protesting against the proposed move to increase OBC quotas in educational institutions.
Students of Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge Medical
College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, University College of
Medical Sciences and Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College were boycotting lectures and staying away from OPD services, leader of the group Anirudh Lochan told PTI.
The resident doctors have also extended their support to the agitation and would be joining the students during the demonstrations, he claimed.
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Accusing political parties of resorting to vote-bank politics while moving such a proposal, the protestors decided to go on a strike, demanding a roll back of the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs..
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Patiala : The medical students from the three premier institutions of the city today left the city to join medical students of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, who had been on a hunger strike in the protest against the new reservation policy of the union government.
More than 70 medical students from the Government Medical College, Government Dental College and Government Ayurvedic College boarded a bus from the premises of the Government Rajindra Hospital that was flagged off by president of the Punjab Branch of the Indian Medical Association, Dr G.S. Gill.
In a joint statement,
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Resident doctors of 14 of the 45 hospitals that are under the directorate of health services of the Delhi government have withdrawn their strike called as part of the anti-reservation stir, an official spokesman said.
However, doctors of other hospitals, including the three major ones under the Delhi government Lok Nayak, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Deendayal Upadhyaya are still on