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PMK leader flays Rangasamy

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Accuses him of `deliberately' failing to prevent employees' strike

PUDUCHErry: Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has charged Pondicherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy with `deliberately' failing to prevent the strike by employees in the Centrally-administered Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research.

Mr. Rangasamy has also abstained from taking action against the employees who were holding the patients to ransom, he said.

In a hard-hitting attack on Mr. Rangasamy, the PMK leader said in a release on Tuesday that the Central Government had intended to make JIPMER a nationally reputed medical institution through its decision (to make it autonomous).

Dr. Ramadoss said only a section of employees were fomenting the strike (to protest the Centre's decision). But the Chief Minister did not make any efforts even though patients were facing severe hardships following the strike.

He said Mr. Rangasamy had asked the employees (when they met him) to conduct the agitations `without causing hindrance or hardship to the people'. This was an utterly perplexing and paradoxical approach on the part of the Chief Minister, he said. He should have firmly asked the employees to give up the agitation, as any dislocation would be a major disservice to the patients, he added.

Dr. Ramadoss expressed concern over the Chief Minister of a Union Territory (functioning under the direct control of the Central Government) advising the employees to launch an agitation against the decision of the Central Cabinet headed by Prime Minster Manmohan Singh. Mr. Rangasamy had not understood the genuine intention of the Centre (to make JIPMER an autonomous body). It was the Constitutional duty of the Chief Minister to implement the Centre's decision and bring to an end the strike, he said.

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