OBC quota: Medicos launch signature campaign, fast enters Day 5

Mysore, May 23 (UNI) Hundreds of medical and engineering students and junior doctors launched a signature campaign, even as the relay fast by medicos, in protest against the Centre's move to reserve 27 per cent of the seats for OBCs in higher education, entered the fifth day today.

The anti-reservation agitation entered the eight day in the city today with the agitators collecting signatures of thousands of students and citizens supporting their cause.

Meanwhile, Mysore District Backward Class Association President K Sudhakar Naidu said the reservation policy would not affect meritorious students in any way. ''It is only a misconception that meritorious students will be left in the lurch if reservation is provided in higher education.'' Outpatient services in the K R hospital was continued to be badly affected with post graduate students and interns also joining the agitation, boycotting work.

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