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Medicos take out march
An hour after the controversial OBC Reservation Bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, the MBBS students and junior doctors got into agitation mode, here on Friday. The protesting medicos marched with two donkeys on the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital campus and also burnt the effigy of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh. The students also targetted Congress president Sonia Gandhi for remaining silent on the quota issue due to "political compulsions".
An hour after the controversial OBC Reservation Bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, the MBBS students and junior doctors got into agitation mode, here on Friday.
The protesting medicos marched with two donkeys on the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital campus and also burnt the effigy of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh. The students also targetted Congress president Sonia Gandhi for remaining silent on the quota issue due to "political compulsions".
Over hundred under-graduate and post-graduate medical students gathered near the Emergency Ward of the SRN Hospital at around 11am and staged dharna under the banner of 'Youth For Equality'.
They marched with two donkeys, sporting Arjun Singh's and Sonia Gandhi's placards around their necks, on the SRN Hospital campus.
Shouting slogans against UPA government, they burnt the effigy of Arjun Singh in front of Emergency Ward.
The students, wearing black badges, closed the Out Patient Department for the third day on Friday due to which most of the senior doctors and consultants left the hospital by 12 noon.
The patients coming from interior villages of the district were turned away by the paramedical staff. Some also waited for hours outside the Emergency Ward, in hope of getting consultation from the senior doctors.
But the students were in no mood to soften their stand on the quota issue. "We will accept reservation if it comes from the top. The post of President, Prime Minister, the heads of science institutes and even Congress president should be reserved for SC/ST and OBC candidates.
The ministers cannot decide the fate of millions of students, just for the vote bank. They should first learn to behave in Parliament," said a junior doctor.
Junior Doctors' Association president Dr Neeraj said the JDAs in different medical colleges have been contacted for deciding future course of action on the quota issue.
