New Delhi: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has welcomed the Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC)’s choice to withdraw permission to run MBBS programs for the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence in Jammu, saying different states must also take be aware and “Hindu cash” must be spent for “Hindu causes”.
“Vishva Hindu Parishad welcomes the choice taken within the context of Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical Faculty. All state governments ought to be aware of the adherence to the simply and constitutional precept of ‘Hindu cash for Hindu causes’,” it advised X.
The medical establishment is funded by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, which receives donations from Hindu devotees.
Vinod Bansal, nationwide spokesperson for the VHP, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), advised ThePrint that the VHP has been demanding that Hindu spiritual locations be free of authorities management for fairly a while.
“Hindu cash must be spent for Hindu causes and that’s the reason we welcome the choice relating to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical Faculty. On the similar time, the cash collected (God’s cash) must be spent on the maintenance of the gods and devotees,” he added.
He additional stated that a lot of “non-believers” have been admitted to the Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Faculty of Nursing, which is a trigger for concern.
“Not solely this, most of the employees of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board are additionally non-believers and that is in opposition to the board’s structure and the Hindu religion. The Hindu group is not going to settle for this,” he claimed.
The uproar over the medical school started after it admitted 50 college students within the 2025-26 educational 12 months, 42 of whom had been from the Muslim group. Native residents and Hindu organizations, together with the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh Samiti, protested, demanding that admission be restricted to Hindu college students and claiming that the college was run totally on donations obtained from Hindu devotees.
On Tuesday, the NMC canceled the permission granted to medical faculties to conduct MBBS programs citing non-compliance with minimal requirements. It additionally stated that admitted college students can be accommodated in different government-run medical faculties inside the Texas State College, which have extra capability.
A video of the Sangharsh Samiti and different Jammu-based organizations welcoming the withdrawal of permission went viral on Wednesday. The group even held a victory march.
Whereas J&Ok BJP leaders keep that the withdrawal has nothing to do with politics, Prime Minister Omar Abdullah has condemned the transfer as unlucky.
Chatting with the media, Opposition Chief Sunil Sharma welcomed the NMC’s choice and stated it adopted complaints about lack of infrastructure. He argued that giving admission to college students from a specific group would damage nationwide sentiments. After the controversy broke out, he additionally met members of the Samiti.
“Somebody’s emotions” SanataniHindus had been affected as a result of donations to non secular establishments are for Hindu functions. “The shrine committee damage folks’s sentiments by opening a medical school, however the well being ministry and NMC have saved folks’s religion alive and revered,” he stated.
“I wish to congratulate the nation. Everybody led the wrestle beneath the umbrella of Sangharsh Samiti and their sentiments had been revered.”
He claimed that the CM was attempting to provide a “spiritual angle” to the controversy and “obtained reply by this choice”.
“We now have all the time maintained that religion must be revered and donations must be used to: spiritual preacher (dissemination of spiritual data). We have no issues with the youngsters (who’re enrolled). However folks’s cash can’t be used for different functions. You possibly can open a Gurukul or Vedic analysis middle. However the CM is busy attempting to play a non secular angle, which isn’t proper,” he added.
BJP chief Sat Sharma additionally welcomed the NMC’s choice and asserted that it has nothing to do with the celebration in energy on the Heart or the federal government.
“The NMC group discovered critical deficiencies in medical faculties throughout unannounced inspections. NMC is an autonomous physique and doesn’t perform in accordance with the federal government or political events. We now have additionally obtained complaints about poor infrastructure and absence of lecturers. Selections can’t be questioned,” he stated.
“I wish to thank Union Well being Minister JP Nadda for intervening to allow the affected college students to proceed their research at different universities.”
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“When you’re completely satisfied, burst a cracker.”
Chatting with the media, Abdullah stated the NMC’s transfer was unlucky and the way forward for kids was being toyed with.
“This situation has taken a political flip. In different elements of the nation, individuals are combating to draw (set up) medical faculties. However right here, a struggle has been fought to close down medical faculties. You’re enjoying with the way forward for the youngsters of Jammu and Kashmir. If you’re pleased with destroying the way forward for kids, then burst crackers,” he stated.
“This day trip of fifty kids, 40 are from Kashmir and in a 12 months or two, these 50 seats will turn out to be 400 seats, and of these 400 seats, 200-250 could also be from Jammu,” he added.
The CM stated he has requested the well being minister to rearrange the youngsters on the nearest medical school. “In order that they turn out to be medical doctors and serve the folks right here. College students who will be unable to get seats in medical faculties sooner or later as medical faculties have been closed ought to bear in mind the Sangharsh Samiti,” he asserted.
The NMC choice was additionally criticized by PDP leaders. “The peak of prejudice is that Jammu metropolis is celebrating the closure of a medical school simply because it opened up alternatives for Muslim college students,” stated PDP chief Irthiya Mufti.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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