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The BJP is using the doctors' strike for political gain. BELAGAVI: A political slugfest broke out over the doctors' strike with CM Siddaramaiah accusing the BJP of putting patients to hardship by instigating private hospital managements and doctors to continue the strike.A miffed Siddaramaiah told the legislative council on Thursday: "The BJP is responsible for the continuation of doctors' stir and the death of patients. We had held discussions with the doctors' fraternity and they had relented, but the BJP has provoked them to continue the agitation. We do not understand why they are protesting and compounding the woes of poor patients," the CM said.The doctors' strike rocked the assembly too with the BJP leaders demanding that the government set aside its ego and hold talks with the doctors. Defending the bill, KR Ramesh Kumar said: "We are not against doctors or the medical profession or medical institutions..