Serious differences cropped up among the agitating medicos on the future course of their stir in view of a stern warning by the Supreme Court.
Updated at 7.50 pm
NEW DELHI: Bowing to a Supreme Court directive, resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday said they would resume duties on Thursday.
The 18-day-old agitation against the government move to reserve 27 per cent seats in centres of higher education will, however, continue, a spokesman for the Resident Doctors' Association said.
''We will resume duties at 8 am in deference to the Supreme Court directive. Our agitation will, however, continue,'' he said.
A decision on calling off the agitation in other colleges would be taken by students and doctors of these institutions, he added.
Earlier, serious differences cropped up among the agitating medicos on the future course of their anti-reservation stir in view of a stern warning by the Supreme Court to resume duties immediately.
A section of the protestors, mostly resident doctors, are favouring suspension of the strike to honour the apex court direction, while others say the court order is not binding on them as it was not addressed to medical students.
Sources said heated arguments were also witnessed during two back-to-back general body meetings of the medicos held late on Tuesday night at AIIMS and the decision to continue the stir was taken after a majority vote.
Some of the medicos were of the view that the stir should be suspended since already an application by the Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS and MAMC containing their concerns on the issue has been filed in the apex court, which was ceased of the matter.
Others opposed the idea, saying since their application was pending with the apex court, and the agitation should not be called off until it was heard.
Against his backdrop, more intense deliberations are expected to take place to iron out the differences among them before taking a final decision on the issue.
The medicos are also mulling over the idea of handing over the anti-reservation agitation to students of other streams like engineers from IIT to escape contempt proceedings from the court.
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