Quota issue: IIT-K students continue hunger strike

Kanpur, May 29: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT), students under the banner of Forum of Indians against Reservation (FIR) continued their 'chain hunger-strike' in batches of 10 including two girls for the second day today.

A students' spokesman told newspersons that although only a batch of 10 students were allowed to sit for hunger strike, several 100 students including girls had enrolled for participation.

As striking junior doctors and Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College students were not allowed to enter the campus, they were extending support from outside.

Their strike in LLR Hospital continued, but it made less impact as several students had left for summer vacations.

Meanwhile, a faction of medicos supporting reservation to OBCs were planning to form a front to counter the anti-reservation brigade.

''We will soon constitute an All UP Reserved Category Doctors Association to support the proposed quota. It will include interns, resident doctors and UG medical students belonging to OBCs, SCs and STs to generate awareness among the masses about the necessity of reservation for the community,'' a pro-quota student said.

Striking doctors and students have decided to organise 'Sadbhudhi March' soon comprising students from colleges, lawyers and traders.

UNI

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