Ramadoss flooded with marriage offers from medicos

MARRYING THE MINISTER: Medical students have adopted this novel way to get Ramadoss’ attention.

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New Delhi / Mumbai: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has been flooded with marriage offers by medical students. But if only it was for love!

Armed with roses for the minister, these students want him to marry and accompany them to the rural areas. The students have adopted this novel way to get Ramadoss’ attention after the Health Ministry’s move to increase the duration of the MBBS course, which included a one-year compulsory rural service.

“He is the most eligible man for us because we don’t have an option. He is sending us to the rural areas and we will also get less salary so we need to marry Ramadoss to get us through the difficult times,” Lakshmi, a medical student said.

Instead of agitated protest marches these medical students have taken refuge in a show of love. For them, wedding posters speak louder than words.

“Be our husband and come with us to the villages to protect us. If he (Ramadoss) is so keen on sending us to the villages then he should also be there to support us,” another student Rashmi said.

It’s a new form of Gandhigiri in which love and cupid take centrestage but will the persistent minister bow to their proposal or rather the rural posting? That’s a million dollar question but if he doesn’t then this protest will just be remembered as an eye-capturing tactic.

Meanwhile, the story in Hyderabad, too, is one of protest, but here there is no space for love and roses. Senior doctors in Andhra Pradesh have threatened to join their juniors in a strike, seeking action against MIM MLA Afsar Khan, who is accused of assaulting a lady doctor.

(With bureau inputs)