New Delhi: The student agitation over the proposed quota in institutes of higher learning has intensified all across the country.
Medical services were disrupted in various cities as resident doctors and medical students took out rallies, raised slogans and burnt effigies of HRD minister Arjun Singh.
Various social activists and self-help groups came out in support of the doctors and joined-in the student movement.
Some Resident Welfare Associations also came out in support of the on-going students movement.
Representives of RWAs led by United Residents Joint Action, which networks with over 500 RWAs across Delhi, extended support to the on-going students movement against reservations.
In Madhya Pradesh: Doctors in Indore will take out a march in the city on Thursday to protest the police action on doctors in Mumbai who were agitating against the proposal for the OBC quota in elite educational institutions.
"The IMA Indore branch will take out a protest rally on May 18 and sport a black band in protest tomorrow against the propose reservation policy in institutes of higher learning," IMA national Vice President," Dr S N Goyal said.
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Goyal also said that the IMA is mulling a suggestion not to include those doctors in the body who were taking advantage of the reservation policy from one generation to other to set an example in the society.
"We are of the opinion that once a person takes the benefit of reservation policy then that person is at par with others in the society and therefore, he or she should not take its benefit for his/her children," Goyal said.
In Orissa: In Bhubhaneshwar, The demonstration was organised under the banner of Social Justice Movement led by its President Ashok Das.
Former Union Minister and President of the newly-formed Orissa Mukti Morcha Bhajaman Behera, President of the state unit of Samajwadi Party Baishnab Parida, former MP Anchal Das and former MLA Sura Sethi also joined the demonstration.
In Gujarat: In Vadodara, the junior doctors association of the city has decided to go on a 72-hour strike from today in support of the demands of striking students of the medical colleges across the country.
The doctors said that they will, however, continue to attend emergency cases in the SSG Hospital.
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