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Quota protestors call ceasefire
Published on Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 15:43, Updated on Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 20:07 in India section
Tags: Quota, Medical Students , New Delhi
New Delhi: Doctors and medical students on Friday suspended their anti-quota agitation in view of the reservation bill being referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee after being introduced in Lok Sabha.
They also decided to move Supreme Court against the proposed law.
"The bill has been referred to a Standing Committee so now it will be taken up only in the Winter Session of Parliament. Hence we have decided to suspend our agitation till then," said a member of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Resident Doctors Association, Dr Vinod Patra.
The students, who were demonstrating at Jantar Mantar, announced their decision to suspend the agitation after they got the information about the bill. Medicos described it as a "short-term victory" for them.
"We will now try to organise ourselves in a better way, mobilise public opinion in our favour and also explore legal options," Patra said.
He said as soon as they will get a copy of the bill, the medicos will consult lawyers and move the Supreme Court against the proposed legislation.
"Now the battle will not be on the streets. We will fight it out in Supreme Court," he said.
The bill, envisaging 27 per cent seat reservation for OBCs during admission in Central educational institutions besides 15 per cent for SCs and 7.5 per cent for STs, was introduced in Lok Sabha.
Later, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said the bill will be referred to the Standing Committee.
Earlier, around 75 students were detained as they blocked traffic on the busy Outer Circle road in Connaught Place, police said.
The students also broke the window panes of a police bus in which they were being taken away after detention.
Resident doctors of the Capital's five premier medical colleges, who are on mass casual leave for the second day on Friday to protest the quota move, will soon return to work, Patra added.
Doctors and medical students had held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar where they were joined in by students from Indian Institute of Technology.
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