Protesters clash with cops in Jammu
JAMMU, Dec. 28 -- Hundreds of protesters led by Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh Samiti staged a protest, scuffled with policemen and burnt an effigy of the lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha outside Lok Bhavan here on Saturday, demanding revocation of the MBBS admission list of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence.
Raising slogans, some of the protesters even tried to climb over the walls of the Lok Bhawan. Sinha is the chairman of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine board. It may be stated here that out of 50 students in the maiden batch of MBBS course to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College, 42 belong to Muslim community, which has sparked a major controversy here with Hindu devotees and various religious organisations demanding that only Hindu candidates be provided admission on the grounds that the medical college was constructed and being run out of donations of Hindu devotees at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. J&K BJP's women activists and several trade leaders, including president of Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries Arun Gupta, also joined the protest. The protest led to the blocking of the main road outside Lok Bhavan, resulting in traffic snarls on adjoining roads and causing hardship to commuters for nearly two hours.
Police personnel were deployed in strength outside the Lok Bhavan to maintain law and order and regulate traffic.
"We will continue our protest till the resolution of our demands," Samiti convener Colonel Sukhvir Singh Mankotia told reporters....
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