Stop talks with striking medicos: Ramadoss to UPA

Chennai, May 29: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder leader S Ramadoss today said the Centre should no longer hold talks with the striking doctors and medical students but go ahead with its decision to implement 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions.

In a statement here, Dr Ramadoss said it deserved to be condemned the declaration by doctors and medical students to continue the stir, even after the Centres proposal to examine the demand for setting up an expert committee to review the issue, deserver to be condemned.

Stating that this exposed the oppressive forces, which were behind the anti-reservation agitation, Dr Ramadoss said the Centre, without succumbing to any pressure, should openly declare that it would no longer hold talks with the agitators. The entire Scheduled Caste and Backward Class community would support the Centre, if it announced such a stand, he said.

The decision by the agitators to continue the stir could no way be justified, he said.

Dr Ramadoss regretted that Tamil Nadu, a pioneer in upholding social justice, had failed to raise its voice loud and clear on the the 27 per cent reservation issue now. Even now it was not too late, he said suggesting the state through a resolution in the assembly, convey its wholehearted support to reservation and raise its voice, he said.

'Puthiya Tamizhagam' President Dr K Krishnasamy, in a statement, blamed the Centre for delaying the implementation of the reservation.

''It is a matter of disappointment that the Centre, instead of implementing reservation, is delaying it, citing the agitations,'' he alleged.

Opposing reservation, Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy said the Centre's decision to introduce reservation was a conspiracy to divide the Hindu society.

In a statement here, he said the concept of social justice must begin by ensuring that children of backward classes and scheduled castes and tribes were provided first rate primary and secondary education so that they could be able to compete for admission on the basis of merit at higher levels.

UNI

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