Skewed in favour of Muslims? Sangh outfits want admission for Vaishnodevi medical college scrapped

Days after communal tensions flared in Jammu after several Hindutva organisations objected to Muslim representation in the first academic and staffing cycle of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence and its shrine-funded hospital, the outfits now demand the scrapping of the released names, thereby make the entire process void.

The controversy began after the release of the inaugural MBBS admission list, where 42 of 50 seats went to Muslim students selected strictly through NEET merit and J&K domicile rules.

Protesters labelled this “religiously skewed,” even though medical colleges in India cannot legally apply religious criteria of any kind.

On November 15,in a letter to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, the VHP demanded policy changes to “protect the religious char