CM not taking steps to end strike at Jipmer: Ramdoss

Pondicherry, Sep 19 (UNI) Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder leader S Ramdoss today came down heavily on Pondicherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy for not taking steps to end the strike by the Jipmer employees to an end.

In a statement released to the press here this evening, Dr Ramdoss said that a section of the Jipmer employees indulging in an indefinite strike for the last 12 days had affected patients care services in the union territory and the chief minister unmindful of the happenings at the institution was concentrating on playing tennis.

He said the Chief Minister should have asked the employees not to resort to strike when they called on him on the second day of the strike.

Dr Ramdoss said that it was the duty and responsibility of the Chief Minister to implement the decision of the Centre.

However, Mr Rangasamy remained mere spectator to please a few voters in his Thattanchavady constituency, he added. He wondered whether Mr Rangasamy wanted to tarnish the image of Jipmer to bring up the government medical college coming in his constituency.

Alleging irregularities in the land acquisition for the medical college, Ramdoss asked when Jipmer, nursing college, dental college and several other institutions were there in his Thattanchavady constiteuncy what was the necessity to set up the government medical college and charged that it was also registered as a society to attain personal gains.

Dr Ramdoss also said that he would write to AICC President Sonia Gandhi on how the Pondicherry Chief Minister had failed in his responsibilities and would also call on DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi tomorrow to discuss the issue.

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