Anti-reservation stir reaches Kashmir

Srinagar, May 18 (UNI) The anti-reservation agitation today reached the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir as medical students and junior doctors held a protest march here to express solidarity with their fellow colleagues across the country.

They were protesting against the police action on their fellow colleagues in Mumbai on May 13 and the government's proposal to reserve 27 per cent seats for OBCs in centres of higher learning.

The students and the junior doctors said the reservation move is anti-merit and would push back India's development.

They carried placards displaying ''discriminators stop pursuing personal agenda, doctors wake up, down with quota and stop brutal ways'' and shouted slogans against Union Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh.

However, the medical services were not disrupted in the Kashmir valley.

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