Press Trust of India Posted online: Monday, December 18, 2006 at 1529 hours IST
Kanpur, December 18: The hunger strike by the students of IIT-Kanpur entered third day on Monday with a group of students from the Kanpur University joining them in their protest against the passage of reservation in higher education bill in the Lok Sabha.
A group of students under the leadership of Ravi Bharat, a B Tech student at the Kanpur University, joined the strike from today.
"If the bill will be passed by Rajya Sabha as well, we would move to the President and Supreme Court," Chandra Shekhar, spokesman of Youth for Equality which is spearheading the protest, said in Kanpur.
He said that all students were observing the strike in support of the striking residents doctors of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, but said they were not boycotting work.
"So far our agitation was peaceful and if the reservation bill was passed in Rajya Sabha, then we will raise our voice before the President and Supreme Court," he said.
The resident doctors and medical students of GSVM medical college here, however, remained silent as the examinations in the medical college were in progress.
The district administration has deployed force in and around the medical college premises to prevent any untoward incident.
Kanpur, December 18: The hunger strike by the students of IIT-Kanpur entered third day on Monday with a group of students from the Kanpur University joining them in their protest against the passage of reservation in higher education bill in the Lok Sabha.
