Chandigarh, June 7 -- Punjab Ekta Party (PEP) president Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday demanded from the Punjab Government to "plug the loopholes" in the admission process of the state's Government Medical Colleges to protect the interests of local students and block students from other states who are "exploiting rules" to grab the MBBS seats in Punjab.

"Due to faulty admission criteria, the students of other states are eating into the share of Punjab students in the state-run medical colleges which is a grave injustice with the meritorious students who want to get admission in Government medical colleges despite scoring high marks in the entrance test," he said, pointing that the Punjab and Haryana High Court has already, in 2014, order...