OBC quota: Medicos stage demo, relay fast enters Day 4

Monday, May 22, 2006, 19:20 [IST]

Mysore, May 22 (UNI) Hundreds of medical and engineering students and junior doctors stage a demonstration in front of the K R hospital, 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 fourth day today.

The anti-reservation agitation entered the seventh day in the city today and the medicos said the agitation would continue till they got justice.

The engineering students also joined the relay fast in front of the Cheluvambha hospital.

Outpatient services in the K R hospital was badly affected with post graduate students and interns also joining the agitation, boycotting work.

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