New Delhi: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has welcomed the choice of the Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC) to withdraw permission to Jammu’s Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence to run an MBBS course, saying that different states ought to take observe and that “Hindu cash” must be used for “Hindu trigger”.

“The Vishva Hindu Parishad welcomes the choice taken within the context of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical School. All state governments ought to take observe for the adherence to the simply and constitutionally compliant precept ‘Hindu Cash for Hindu Trigger’,” it acknowledged on X.

Chatting with ThePrint, Vinod Bansal, nationwide spokesperson of VHP, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), mentioned they’ve been demanding for fairly a while that Hindu non secular locations must be free of authorities management.

“Hindu cash must be used for Hindu causes, which is why we welcome the choice relating to Mata Vaishno Devi medical faculty. On the identical time, the cash collected (deity’s cash) must be spent on the maintenance of the deities and devotees,” he added.

He additional mentioned that a lot of “non-believers” had been given admission in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi School of Nursing, which was a reason behind concern.

“Not solely this, a lot of staff of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board are non-believers too, which is in opposition to the structure of the board and Hindu perception. The Hindu society won’t settle for this,” he asserted.

The row over the medical faculty was triggered when, for educational yr 2025-26, the institute admitted 50 college students, of which 42 have been from the Muslim group. Locals and Hindu organisations, together with the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh Samiti, protested, demanding that the admission be confined to Hindu college students and arguing that the faculty was largely run on donations acquired from Hindu devotees.

On Tuesday, the NMC withdrew the permission granted to the medical faculty to run an MBBS course citing non-compliance with minimal requirements. It additionally mentioned the admitted college students can be accommodated in different government-run medical faculties within the UT in opposition to supernumerary seats.

A video of Sangharsh Samiti and different Jammu-based organisations welcoming the withdrawal of permission went viral Wednesday. The organisations even took out a victory march.

Whereas J&Okay BJP leaders declare that the withdrawal had nothing to do with politics, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah slammed the transfer as unlucky.

Chief of the opposition within the meeting, Sunil Sharma, chatting with the media, welcomed the NMC resolution and mentioned it was finished after receiving complaints about lack of infrastructure. He maintained that public sentiment was harm when admissions got to college students from one specific group. He had additionally met the Samiti members after the controversy broke out.

“Sentiments of a sanatani, Hindu, have been affected as a result of the donations made to the non secular place are for Hindu causes. The shrine board, by opening a medical faculty, had harm the feelings of the individuals and the well being ministry and NMC have saved the religion of individuals alive and revered it,” he mentioned.

“I want to congratulate the individuals. Underneath the Sangharsh Samiti umbrella, everybody led a struggle and their sentiments have been revered.”

He alleged that the CM tried to provide the row “a spiritual angle” and had “acquired reply via this resolution”.

“We now have all the time maintained that religion must be revered and donation cash must be used for dharm prachar (dissemination of spiritual information). We now have no problem with any little one (who acquired admission). However individuals’s cash can’t be used for another trigger. A gurukul or Veda analysis centre will be opened. The CM, although, is busy making an attempt to provide it a spiritual angle, which isn’t appropriate,” he added.

BJP chief Sat Sharma additionally welcomed the NMC resolution and asserted it had nothing to do with the social gathering or authorities in energy on the Centre.

“The NMC staff discovered critical deficiencies on the medical faculty throughout a shock inspection. NMC is an autonomous physique and it doesn’t operate in line with the federal government or political events. It acquired complaints about insufficient infrastructure and absence of lecturers. We will’t query the choice,” he mentioned.

“I want to thank Union well being minister J.P. Nadda for his intervention, which can enable the affected college students to proceed their research in different faculties.”

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‘If you’re glad, burst crackers’

Abdullah, chatting with the media, termed the NMC transfer as unlucky and mentioned the way forward for youngsters was being performed with.

“The difficulty has taken a political flip. In different components of the nation, individuals struggle to carry (arrange) medical faculties. However right here, a struggle was fought to shut the medical faculty. You will have performed with the way forward for Jammu & Kashmir’s youngsters. If you’re feeling glad about destroying youngsters’s future, then burst crackers,” he mentioned.

“This time, 40 of fifty youngsters got here from Kashmir, after one-two years, these 50 seats would have grow to be 400, and out of these 400 seats, it’s doable that 200-250 would have been from Jammu,” he added.

The CM mentioned he had requested the well being minister to regulate the youngsters at their nearest medical faculties. “In order that they grow to be docs and serve individuals right here. The scholars who won’t get a medical faculty seat sooner or later as a result of it has been closed ought to keep in mind the Sangharsh Samiti,” he asserted.

The NMC resolution was additionally criticised by PDP leaders. “Heights of bigotry is Jammu celebrating the closure of a medical faculty solely as a result of it paved alternatives for Muslim college students,” mentioned Iltija Mufti, PDP chief.

(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)

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