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Medicos look forward to IMA support
DESPITE COURAGE and intense feeling for their striking counterparts in several parts of the country, medicos and other students lack direction and leadership to intensify the anti-reservation stir in the city.
DESPITE COURAGE and intense feeling for their striking counterparts in several parts of the country, medicos and other students lack direction and leadership to intensify the anti-reservation stir in the city.
Medicos have sought support from the Indian Medical Association and other organisations to sustain their fight against the proposed quota hike. However, students of the Indian Institute of Technology here are confident of intensifying the stir through their own perseverance.
Meanwhile, medicos of the GSVM Medical College and students of the IIT-K, the HBTI and other private professional technical institutes are trying hard to make their presence felt in the fight against the proposed reservation hike.
However, the GSVM Medical College administration on Wednesday declared summer holidays for about 400 students of para Y1 and Z1 batches till June 1.
About 200 medicos of para W1 batch are already on vacation. This paucity of students in the medical college is hampering the anti-reservation protest here.
But some students of the IIT-K and the GSVM Medical Collegehave decided to maintain contact and they are going to hold a clandestine meeting soon under the banner of Kanpur Students Forum, the outfit floated recently by some students to bring all anti-quota students on one platform.
Talking to HT, some students of IIT-K said, “We are in touch with students in Mumbai and New Delhi and very soon we will contemplate sitting on hunger strike in support of striking students in other parts of the country.”
But the threat of disciplinary action by the medical college administration is looming large before the medicos, perhaps that is why they are holding meetings outside the medical college premises. One such meeting was attended by this correspondent on Wednesday and the turnout of students was phenomenal, those who could not attend the meeting were contacted through cell phones. The medicos silently demanded support from the Indian Medical Association city chapter officials, whereas the IITians shared opinion with their counterparts in Mumbai and New Delhi.
Finally, the meeting ended with the resolution to mobilise the masses in support of the anti-reservation protest.
