Anti-quota stir extends to other parts, Bill to be tabled tomrw

New Delhi, Aug 24: With the government proposing to table a Bill to provide 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in institutions of higher education in Parliament tomorrow, the renewed anti-quota stir engulfed different parts of the country today, including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal The police in Jaipur had to resort to lathicharge to disperse the agitating medical students and resident doctors in which about 20 students were injured.

Doctors from Varanasi and Lucknow and students of IIT-Kanpur joined the strike as a group of IIT (Kanpur) students sat on a 24-hour hunger strike to protest the cabinet's aproval to OBC quota plan. Medicos wore black bands to protest the move.

The faculty of the IIT(K), while expressing solidarity with the agitating students, availed mass casual leave.

Doctors at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) also wore black bands to symbolically protest the UPA government move to introduce 27 per cent OBC Quota bill in Parliament tomorrow.

In Kolkata, at least seven students and two constables were injured when an anti-reservation rally turned violent following an alleged baton charge by police.

The injured students were admitted to the Medical College and Hospital.

Several anti-reservation protestors were injured and scores detained during a demonstration in the national capital as police used water cannon and teargas to stop them from marching towards the Supreme Court.

Police used water cannon and teargas shells to disperse scores of demonstrators as they were trying to form a ''human chain'' near the court and submit a memorandum to the court registrar.

UNI