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PM meets President: discusses reservation

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New Delhi, May 22: In the midst of the ongoing agitation over the reservation issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called on President APJ Abdul Kalam and discussed current issues of national importance.

The meeting, which lasted 30 minutes, also covered legislative business that would be coming up in the current session of Parliament, a Rashtrapati Bhawan spokesaman said.

Official sources, however, stated that the proposed OBC quota and the ongoing agitation by students were also discussed.

The Prime Minister is understood to have briefed Dr Kalam on various aspects of the controversy over reservations for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

The meeting between Dr Singh and the President came close on the heels of the Prime Minister's appeal to the striking medicos to end their agitation.

UNI

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