Saharsa, Sept. 9: The RJD MP from Madhepura, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, and the doctors of the Kosi region are at loggerheads over the lawmaker’s reduce-consultation fee diktat.

The MP had asked the doctors last week to reduce their consultation fee. Decrease in rates of pathological investigations was also on his wish list. But the medicos of the region refused to toe his line, claiming that they were guided by the guidelines of their professional bodies and not by what a politician said.

The outright rejection of MP’s idea by the local unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA) has not gone down well with him. Yadav has now threatened to sue the doctors.

“Apart from taking the doctors to the court, I shall urge chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi to intervene in this issue because I am raising these points for the poor people of the Kosi region,” Yadav told reporters while reacting to the IMA’s decision.

Yadav on Saturday had said that all doctors should charge a uniform and reasonable consultation fee. He had also demanded lowering of charges for different pathological investigations.

The president of IMA’s Saharsa unit, Dr U.C. Mishra, rejected the demand of the MP on the very next day, claiming that the consultation fee of the doctors hinged on their competence and experience. The chief of IMA’s Madhepura unit, Dr Arun Kumar Mandal, echoed Dr Mishra.

The Saharsa unit of IMA has brought the matter to the notice of the office-bearers of IMA’s state unit, seeking their intervention in the issue.

Undeterred by the stand of the doctors, Yadav has issued a detailed chart of fee to be charged by doctors and pathological centres and has urged them to adhere to the rates.

The MP’s move has not gone down well with the medical fraternity.