NEET PG Counselling Delay: Arvind Kejriwal urges PM Modi to find quick solution

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to find a quick solution to delayed National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG counselling 2021. The minister wrote a letter to PM Modi while condemning the face-off between police and protesting resident doctors on Monday.

“The doctors of the center have been on strike for several days. They served in Corona by risking their lives. Corona is rising again. They should be in the hospital, not on the streets. We strongly condemn the police brutality inflicted on them. The PM accept their demands soon. my letter to PM,” Kejriwal said in a tweet.

केंद्र के डॉक्टर कई दिनों से हड़ताल पर हैं। इन्होंने कोरोना में अपनी जान की बाज़ी लगाकर सेवा की। कोरोना फिर बढ़ रहा है। इन्हें अस्पताल में होना चाहिए, ना कि सड़कों पर

इन पर जो पुलिस बर्बरता की गई, हम उसकी कड़ी निंदा करते हैं। PM साहिब इनकी माँगे जल्द मानें। PM को मेरा पत्र pic.twitter.com/yE5waHecAz

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 28, 2021

All India Institute of Medical Sciences resident doctors’ association (AIIMS RDA) condemned the “atrocities of police against the doctors who were protesting peacefully for expediting the NEET PG Counselling for admission of more than 42,000 doctors”.

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Demanding immediate release of detained doctors, the AIIMS RDA asked for an apology from the government and police for "manhandling doctors" and threatened to proceed with a token strike tomorrow, December 29, 2021.

Protest by a large number of resident doctors in Delhi over the delay in NEET PG 2021 counselling on Monday took a dramatic turn, as medics and police personnel faced off in streets, with both sides claiming several persons suffered injury in the ensuing melee. FORDA said it was a 'black day in the history of the medical fraternity'.

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The stir, led by the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA), has been going on for several days, and FORDA also said that several of its members were "detained" when they tried to hold a protest march from Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) to Supreme Court. FORDA president Manish claimed that resident doctors of a large number of major hospitals on Monday "returned their apron (lab coat) in a symbolic gesture of rejection of services".