Attempt to communalise medical science unfortunate: Sajad Lone

Srinagar, Nov 23: Peoples Conference President and MLA Handwara Sajad Gani Lone on Sunday criticised, what he characterised as a perilous attempt to "communalise medical sciences" in the controversy surrounding students admitted to the Medical School of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University.

In a statement issued , PC Chief contended that the emerging discourse represented a profoundly troubling politicization of one of the nation's most rigorous and merit-based disciplines.

"This is too much of a stretch. The BJP is now experimenting with the concept of communalising medical sciences," he said, urging a return to constitutional norms and academic integrity, as per KNS.

Emphasising that medical admissions operate under a uniform national framework, he noted that "there is a proper admission test called NEET. And that is an All India test." Lone underscored that the young men and women who secure positions in medical colleges nationwide do so through merit alone. "The finest brains in the country sit that exam and those who get selected work hard to become a doctor. And then these doctors serve people, treat them, perform surgeries."

"Look at how medical science has evolved over the last few decades… the MRI machine, the CT scan," he added. Lone said that the political trivialization of such a distinguished discipline constituted an affront to generations of scientists. "The scientists who made all this possible will turn in their graves when they find out that medicine has been relegated to a group of undereducated political leaders miring a subject as noble as medicine into communalism."