The state government has denied that politics is behind the mass resignations of  nine teachers-doctors of the Opthalmology Department of Sir JJ Hospital. Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif told the Assembly that the teachers had resigned voluntarily, and not because of politics or irregularities in the teaching department. He specifically said there was no victimisation of Dr Tatyarao Lahane, who worked at JJ Hospital in an honorary capacity and who had resigned as the coordinator of state cataract panel. 

Among other teachers to resign was Professor Dr Ragini Parekh, head of the department and honorary teachers. “Dr Lahane resigned three months before his term in the office ended,” he said in reply to Congress’s Vijay Wadettiwar and NCP’s Anil Deshmukh.