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U.P. invokes ESMA against doctors

Doctors remain adamant

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Government on Sunday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against doctors opposed to reservation and declared their strike illegal.

The services of the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) doctors, who did not return to their duties within 24 hours, would be terminated and legal action taken against them, Chief Secretary Navin Chandra Bajpai said at a meeting here.

Action would be taken against them under the provisions of ESMA, he said. He warned them that the Government would not tolerate if hospital admissions were denied.

The doctors, however, remained adamant and said they would not work in OPDs to protest the lathicharge on their colleagues in Mumbai. ``We are against any move to impose OBC quota and condemn brutal lathicharge on our colleagues in Mumbai. We will not work in OPDs to mark our protest,'' said Himanshu Goel, an office-bearer of the Resident Doctors' Association of the SGPGIMS said. Students of King George Medical University, who were wearing black badges to extend their moral support to the anti-quota stir, however, decided not to go on strike. — PTI

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