JAMMU: The Rashtriya Bajrang Dal on Thursday took out a march here to protest against the admission of 42 Muslim students, mostly from Kashmir, in the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence and demanded seat reservation at the institute for Hindus.

The political row erupted after the medical college completed admissions through the NEET merit list earlier this month.

It admitted students and allocated 85 per cent of its seats to Jammu and Kashmir residents. Seven Hindu students from Jammu and one Sikh candidate were selected for the inaugural MBBS batch of 50.

The right-wing outfit termed these admissions a “conspiracy to dominate the medical college run on the donations of lakhs of Hindus of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi temple” and demanded a probe into the selection proc

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