Students reject Govt offer, to continue agitation

New Delhi, May 18: Rejecting the government's assurance that general category seats in institutes of higher education will not be reduced, striking resident and junior doctors and medical students today decided to continue with the stir against OBC reservations.

The students and doctors held a General Body Meeting after talks with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee who was part of the four-member high-level committee constituted by the Centre to find an amicable solution to the vexed quota problem.

The GBM unanimously decided to continue with the agitation.

While rejecting the student's demand for setting up an 'apolitical' judicial commission to look into the whole issue, the four-member ministerial team had asked the students to give up their agitation while assuring that general category seats would not be disturbed and the proposed increase in quota for OBCs would be met by adding more seats.

Student representatives would again meet the ministerial team later this evening.

UNI

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