Rathinavel was sacked from the Dean post and placed on waitlist after first year medical students took Charak Shapath oath instead of the Hippocratic oath there on Sunday.

ये भी प�ें- All you need to know about the controversial Charak Oath

Taking to Twitter to express solidarity with Dr Rathinavel a day later, Chidambaram said, “It is condemnable that the students leader of Madurai Medical College had administered the wrong oath to the first year students during welcoming ceremony. It worried me.”

“Many doctors have said that the students leader committed the mistake without intimating the Dean. People of Sivagangai and I are aware of the yoeman service delivered by Dr Rathinavel at Sivagangai headquarters hospital during Covid times.”