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Anti-quota groups run into cops
Published on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 13:49, Updated on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 20:34 in Nation section
Tags: Medical Students, Arjun Singh , New Delhi
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New Delhi: It was like a deja vu. Just three months ago, thousands of anti-quota protestors has gathered at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to register their protests against the Government's proposal to bring in 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs.
On Tuesday, they were in the line of fire, rather water, yet again.
A scuffle broke out between policemen and students agitating against the Centre's reservation policy when the protestors started heading towards Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence.
Police also resorted to firing water cannons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the agitators, who tried to break the security cordon and continue to move towards Gandhi's residence.
Police was able to disperse the students, who suffered minor injuries while trying to get away from the tear gas and water cannons.
The students, who hit the streets after a gap of almost three months to resume their anti-quota agitation a day after Cabinet decided to introduce a Bill in Parliament, wanted to submit a memorandum to Sonia against the Centre's policy.
Students from Indraprastha University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IIT-Delhi and from medical colleges converged at Jantar Mantar demanding immediate reversal of the Cabinet decision taken late last night.
Chanting anti-government slogans and holding the tricolour, the agitating students said they would go to any extreme to force the government to reconsider their decision.
"Earlier, we had called off our agitation following the Supreme Court directive. The apex court should tell the government as well to reconsider the Cabinet decision as the matter is subjudice," Spokesperson of the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association, Anil Sharma said.
He said the medicos were considering legal experts and would move the Supreme Court against the government decision tomorrow.
Attacking the government, Sharma said the medicos' agitation will continue with the same intensity as the May anti-quota protests.
"Though we have not decided to go on a strike we are keeping our options open and it would be the last resort," he said adding that students were being mobilised across the country and a national agitation could be launched soon.
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