The ‘total neglect’ of medical college doctors in the State Budget 2026-27, even when a host of populist measures are announced for all categories of government servants, is not just a serious breach of the promises given to doctors but a huge injustice too, the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association said here. The last Budget presented by this Left Democratic Front government has ignored every single demand repeatedly raised by doctors, a reflection of the systematic neglect shown to doctors. In 2021, just before the Assembly elections, the first Pinarayi government had issued a GO, sanctioning salary arrears in four instalments for both State government employees and medical college doctors. But later, it paid the salary arrears to State government employees, excluding medical college doctors, the KGMCTA pointed out. Medical college doctors have been on an indefinite strike demanding payment of the pay revision arrears due to them since 2016 and rectification of pay revision anomalies at the entry cadre, among others.