STRIKING MEDICOS at the GSVM Medical College have put down the appeal of their striking counterparts at the AIIMS, New Delhi, of going on indefinite hunger strike.
The medicos here have decided to provide all medical services to poor patients and simultaneously remain firm on their stand.
Sources said doctors at the AIIMS had asked the medicos at the GSVM to sit on hunger strike but medicos here want to mobilise support in their favour first and then to take any action.
Meanwhile, to consolidate their campaign against reservation, IITians would soon start interacting with various associations and would meet intellectuals in an effort to mobilise support of maximum number of people against government’s policy to divide people on the basis of caste and creed by inducting 27 per cent reservation in higher education.
After 12 days of strike the medicos at medical college ensured that patient’s slip at Out Patient Department of LLR Hospital should be made. Moreover, striking medicos were seen working diligently at the emergency ward of the hospital.
Medicos along with students of the Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur have resolved to get masses behind them to bolster their protest against quota issue.
{{/usCountry}}Medicos along with students of the Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur have resolved to get masses behind them to bolster their protest against quota issue.
{{/usCountry}}The meeting at AIIMS that was earlier slated to be held on May 28 would now be held on May 27. To participate in the meeting a delegation of IIT-K students would be leaving for AIIMS.
An IIT-K student while talking to Hindustan Times said, “Our aim during Delhi visit would be to support striking medicos there and to develop contacts across the country to unleash a nation wide campaign for our cause.”
The IITians would soon start visiting premier institutes like IITs, IIMs and NIT to win support in their favour. Commenting on the future plans another student of IIT-K said, “Sitting on hunger strike would be sheer waste of energy therefore we have decided to send small groups of students to premiere institutes across the country to motivate them for the development of a holistic society in the country.”
IITians and medicos along with other students of professional institutes in the city are seeking support from everyone in the society. Techies and medicos are soon going to meet prominent civilians and various local bodies in this regard.
For sustainable protest against quota hike, IITians and medicos have also chalked out a plan to go to various business organisations to get financial support to start a nation wide campaign against reservation.
Sources said thousands of pamphlets are being printed and would be handed over personally by students to prominent civilians asking them to stand in support of the students.
To motivate the business community, a department head at the GSVM Medical College said, “When a stone is thrown at one of the shops, businessmen closed the entire markets, but despite the fact that several of their students are doing MBBS or B-Tech, they, even after seeing brutality of police on medicos, have not closed even a single shop here as a symbolic protest against reservation.”