Medicos on warpath
Opposing the government’s decision to introduce the bill, giving 27% reservation for OBCs, hundreds of students and medicos on Monday took to the streets in the capital.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Opposing the government’s decision to introduce the bill, giving 27% reservation for OBCs, hundreds of students and medicos on Monday took to the streets in the capital.
Attacking the government for buckling under pressure from the powerful group within the ruling alliance, the medicos’ representatives said they would go to any extreme, including an on-going strike, to force the government to reconsider its decision.
“We will continue the agitation with the same intensity. Earlier, we had called-off the stir after the Supreme Court intervened. The apex court should now tell the government as well to reconsider the decision as the matter is subjudice," a spokesperson for the doctors' association said.
He said the medicos were also considering legal experts and indicated that they would move to the Supreme Court against the decision to provide reservation for SC/STs and other backward castes in elite central educational institutions, including IITs and IIMs, from next academic year.
The demonstration, which began peacefully, turned violent when the students insisted on meeting UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and submitting a memorandum to her enlisting their grievances. A scuffle soon broke out between policemen and students, when the protestors tried to break the security cordon and headed towards the 10, Janpath residence of the Congress chief.
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Police fired water cannons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the agitators, who also blocked traffic for some time. Several students, including some girls, suffered minor injuries in the melee.Download
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