Students of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarathi Medical College today took out a candlelight procession protesting the dismissal of P Venugopal as Director of the premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.

Carrying placards and posters that said Venugopal was being made a "scapegoat", the students took out a procession from the medical college premises to Moti Jheel area raising slogans against Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

The IIT Kanpur students are already agitating against the reservation policy of the Centre and the medicos of GSVMC have threatened to intensify their agitation after consulting the students of other medical colleges in the state.