Press Trust of India Posted online: Friday, May 19, 2006 at 1252 hours IST Updated: Friday, May 19, 2006 at 1414 hours IST
New Delhi, May 19: Expressing solidarity with medical students and doctors, Delhi University students have joined in the anti-reservation protests and will take out a march in Delhi on Friday, even as the stir against the government's quota-hike proposal entered the sixth day.
Students of DU will hold a protest march in North campus, which will be addressed by motivational guru Shiv Khera.
The DU students will also form a human chain in front of the vice chancellor's office to protest the government's proposal to hike quota in institutions of higher learning.
The agitating medicos, meanwhile, are organising a march tomorrow from Maulana Azad Medical College to Rajghat and parents of some students are expected to join in, Sasmit of 'Youth for Equality', which is spearheading the protests, said.
Barely 30 of the medical students on an indefinite hunger strike were able to continue with the fast, with the majority of the around 150 protestors having backed out after they fainted.
"Now, 30 medicos are on hunger strike and their condition is not good," Sasmit said.
The students and junior doctors of five medical colleges - AIIMS, MAMC, Lady Hardinge Medical College, University College of Medical Sciences and Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College - started their hunger strike on Sunday to protest the OBC quota proposal.
The striking medicos last night have rejected the Centre's assurance that hiking the number of reserved seats in elite educational institutes would not affect General category students and decided to continue their agitation till their demand for complete rollback is met.
