VHP questions admission process at Mata Vaishno Devi Medical Institute, seeks L-G's intervention

The Vishva Hindu Parishad has raised questions on the admission process adopted at the Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence, claiming a majority of those enrolled in the first batch are Muslims, and urged Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to look into the matter.

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In a letter to Sinha on November 1, VHP general secretary Bajrang Bagra wrote, “We have learned that in the first batch of 50 students at the Institute of Medical Excellence, only eight are Hindus, while 42 are Muslim.” He also claimed that the majority of the nursing college faculty are Muslims or Christians.