Bengal medical students join anti-quota stir

Kolkata, May 15 (UNI) Medical students in different parts of West Bengal today observed ''protest day'', by boycotting classes and burning the effigy of HRD Minister Arjun Singh over the proposed move to increase the OBC quota of reservation in higher educational instituions.

Expressing solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi and other cities across the country, the medicos wore black badges to mark their protest against the Government's move.

They, under the banner of Action forum of the junior doctors, have decided to participate in a central rally tomorrow and march to the Raj Bhabhan to submit a memorandum to Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

Shouting slogans, medicos of the city's Medical College and Hospital took out a procession protesting any increase in the quota while students of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital boycotted classes to register their protest.

Junior doctors of North Bengal medical college and Burdwan medical college have also been boycotting classes since Saturday last as part of their agitational programme.

Extending solidarity with the agitating medicos elsewhere in the country, the West Bengal chapter of Indian Medical Association had sent a protest letter to the HRD Minister against the quota system in medical education.

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