Over two lakh doctors across Maharashtra are on a 24-hour token strike since Thursday 8 am to protest the state medical council’s decision permitting homeopathy practitioners to register after completing a short-term pharmacology course.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) said their delegation met Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) Member of Parliament (MP) Supriya Sule, Maharashtra Minister Ashish Shelar, and the Principal Secretary of Medical Education, pressing for the immediate withdrawal of the Maharashtra Medical Council’s (MMC) September 11 notification.