House surgeons, PG students serving at Wenlock hospital stage dharna
Mangaluru: Demanding to provide the stipend, house surgeons and PG students serving at Wenlock hospital today staged a dharna in front of the hospital.
"The 51 house surgeons and 38 PG students, who were taken by the government to serve at the hospital, were getting their monthly stipend until 2017. But we are not getting the stipend for the last eight months. We urged the Chief Minister, the Education Minister, the Health Minister and the Deputy Commissioner to pay the fund; but in vain," the protesters outraged.
The Wenlock Hospital superintendent Rajeshwari Devi', who arrived at the spot, said that the government will be convinced about the issue. He also promised that the hospital will try to solve the problem. Following which, the protesting doctors withdrew their protest and warned of an indefinite strike from November 1 if the issue does not get resolved.
Prasad MB and Ujwal Suvarna lead the protest.
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Defeated delimitation bill in Parliament to defend idea of India: Cong leader Rahul Gandhi
Chennai (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the opposition parties defeated the delimitation bill in the Parliament on Friday to defend the "idea of India."
Addressing a poll rally at Ponneri here, he said the BJP-led government at the Centre brought a new bill on April 16, and said they were trying to pass the women's bill, which he said was passed in 2023.
"In the so-called Women's Bill, delimitation was hidden. The idea was to reduce Tamil Nadu's representation in the Union of India... the delimitation move by BJP was to weaken the strength of southern states, small states, north eastern states," he alleged.
"We defeated in Parliament, a bill in which delimitation was hidden; we defeated it to defend the idea of India."
Rahul added that India that is Bharat, is a union of states, and every single state should have a voice, be free to express itself, and protect its tradition.
