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Saturday, January 15, 2005
A delegation of West Bengal leaders and medical associations met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek his intervention in the matter pertaining to the admission of 69 non-resident India (NRI) medical students.
The admission of these NRI students is cancelled by a Supreme Court order.
Trinamool Congress Chief Mamta Banerjee led the delegation along with Indian Medical Association`s National President Sudipto Roy. They alleged that the West Bengal government has done nothing to help the NRI students come out of the crisis.
The students on the other hand are continuing with a peaceful agitation and relay hunger-strike, but some of them have fallen ill.
“The students have been thrown out of Govt medical colleges in the middle of a session,” said Roy, urging the Prime Minister to save their academic career.
The Trinamool Congress chief also handed over a cheque for Rs 3.25 lakh as her party`s contribution to PM`s relief fund for tsunami victims.
She said also handed over a cheque for Rs one lakh, a part of sale proceeds from the auction of her paintings.