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Dozens of protesters connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) gathered extracurricular Lok Bhavan successful Jammu and acceptable ablaze an effigy of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, demanding revocation of the MBBS admittance list of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence successful Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi.
Raising slogans specified arsenic “LG spell back”, the protestation was organised by Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh Samiti, a recently-formed conglomeration of assorted right-wing organizations.
JK BJP’s women activists and respective commercialized leaders including president of Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries Arun Gupta besides joined the protest.
The protestation led to the blocking of the main roadworthy extracurricular Lok Bhavan, resulting successful postulation snarls connected adjoining roads and causing hardship to commuters for much than one-and-a-half hours.
Police unit were deployed successful spot extracurricular the Lok Bhavan to support instrumentality and bid and modulate traffic, and a pugnacious clip to propulsion backmost protesters who tried to determination wrong the complex.
“We volition proceed our protestation till the solution of our genuine demands which are related to our faith. We are not against students of immoderate peculiar religion, we conscionable privation the seats successful the aesculapian assemblage to beryllium reserved for Hindu students alone,” Samiti convener Colonel Sukhvir Singh Mankotia told reporters.
He said they person staged the protestation extracurricular the Lok Bhavan due to the fact that Lt Governor is the president of the shrine committee and it is his work to guarantee that the spiritual sentiments of immoderate assemblage should not beryllium hurt.
Mr. Mankotia said the authorities should adjacent the aesculapian assemblage if determination is immoderate occupation successful reserving the seats for the Hindu students.
The contention began aft admissions for the inaugural MBBS batch of 50 students were completed done the NEET merit database past month. This batch includes 42 Muslim candidates, mostly from Kashmir, 7 Hindu students from Jammu and 1 Sikh candidate.
The protests were started by right-wing Hindu groups which aboriginal led to the enactment of the Sangarsh Samiti and its leaders person already held talks with Lt Governor and leaders of the cardinal authorities including Union wellness minister.
