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CPI leader visits medicos' protest camp

TIRUPATI. Jan. 9. As the strike by Government junior doctors entered the 29th day and their relay fast the 21st day, the State Communist Party of India joint secretary, K. Narayana, today visited their camp and expressed solidarity with them.

Addressing them, the CPI leader said that with the introduction of user charges in Government hospitals, the constitutionally guaranteed free medicare to the poor and working class would remain merely on books cause hardship to the poor and needy. He accused the ruling Telugu Desam Government of becoming a puppet in the hands of its World Bank bosses and criticised its adamant attitude vis a vis the withdrawal of the contentious G.O.Ms.No:90 and the scrapping of user charges ignoring the State-wide agitation by junior doctors and protests by opposition parties. Meanwhile the Communist Party on India (Marxist)-led Students Federation India mobilised students from the Government Junior College, Puttur, and led a procession through the streets shouting anti-Government slogans for levying user charges and privatising medicare and medical education in the State. The district SFI secretary led the march.

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