In Delhi, medicos demonstrating at Jantar Mantar said they would suspend street protests till the next session of Parliament while continuing the awareness campaign against the quota for OBCs in government-aided educational institutions.
They said they would mount a legal challenge in the Supreme Court after getting a copy of the Central Educational Institutions (reservation in admission) Bill 2006 introduced in Lok Sabha today.
The protests continued in Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, Chandigarh and Kanpur, affecting services in hospitals attached to state-run medical colleges. Medicos staged rallies in several cities and blocked traffic on the roads.
In Kolkata, services at Calcutta Medical College and Chittaranjan National Medical College were hit as the strike by medicos entered the second day.
About 200 students and doctors were arrested in Mumbai while trying to march towards the Chief Minister's residence at Malabar Hill. Students who assembled at Wilson College were asked by police to disperse.
Services at the Sawai Man Singh Medical College in Jaipur were affected for the second day as resident doctors stayed away from work. Authorities cancelled the leave of all medical staff and asked them to join duty, according to agency reports.
