- By Shibra Arshad
- Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:22 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, in a strong-worded response, after BJP MLAs demanded the cancellation of Mata Vaishno Devi institute’s admission list over a high muslim number, said that tomorrow if Muslim kids become 'communal', they should remember the action they are taking today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has invited sharp reactions after several BJP MLAs submitted a memorandum before Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha seeking to scrap the recent MBBS admission list at Mata Vaishno Devi University because most of those who qualified were Muslims.
"They have got admission on merit, get them admitted somewhere else. But tomorrow, when you point fingers against Muslims, you say that they have become communal, they have become sectarian, they do not tolerate others, then remember this: When you do not accept their children, then tomorrow, when something happens, do not blame the entire community," Omar Abdullah said.
The newly sanctioned medical college, allotted 50 MBBS seats for the 2025-26 session, has triggered a major row after 42 of these seats were filled by students from a single community in the inaugural batch.
Right-wing Hindu outfits have slammed the selection process as opaque and are pressing for the institute to be officially designated a 'minority institution'.
"When the children got admission in the Faridabad University, then what did they ask? 'Why do they go to such places? Why do they go to these places where they get radicalised?' When children are willing to go to a medical college like Mata Vaishno Devi, they do not care about the name being Mata Vaishno Devi. They want to become doctors."Now you are denying them admission based on their religion. Tomorrow, if they go to some other institution where they get radicalised, will Sunil Sharma sahab then say he is at fault for this?" Abdullah said.
"Don't treat Muslim children like this, because you blame the entire community for what happens next. Don't do it. If you want Muslim children not to study in this medical college, please change its status, grant it minority status, and our children will get admission elsewhere: to Bangladesh, Turkey, or anywhere else," the Chief Minister added.
Abdullah said that it was never intended to make the medical college a minority institution, but to make it an institution of excellence based on merit.