Communalising health, education fundamentally wrong, toxic politics should stop: Tanvir Sadiq

Posted by admin_kas on 2025-11-24 00:23:03 |

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Muhammad Adnan

Srinagar, Nov 24: Chief Spokesperson Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and MLA Zadibal Tanvir Sadiq on Sunday said that communalising health and education was fundamentally wrong and it harms society today besides destroying nation tomorrow.

In a post on X, Tanvir Sadiq said that those communalising institutions aren’t just doing politics but are dividing society at its core.

"This toxic politics must stop before irreparable damage is done," he wrote on X.

He said if hospitals, schools, universities, and medical colleges start deciding intake on the basis of religion, what kind of country will we become.

"Tomorrow, will a patient be treated according to their faith? Will merit be pushed aside to satisfy majoritarian demands? This is a recipe for disaster," he said.

He wrote this while reacting to a statement of Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma wherein he said that selection of a large number of non-Hindu students for medical courses at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) has caused distress among many devotees.

In his meeting with J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Sharma urged him that the issue involves not only academic considerations but also cultural sensitivities and faith-related expectations associated with institutions linked to Mata Vaishno Devi.

The delegation led by Sunil Sharma urged the Lieutenant Governor to take immediate steps to address the concerns raised by devotees of Mata Vaishno Devi.

On this NC's Tanvir Sadiq said the BJP’s stance on the SMVDU admissions where selections were purely merit-based is not just misguided, it is dangerous.

"A shrine-funded institution does not become a religion-based institution," Tanvir Sadiq wrote on X.

He said donations made in devotion cannot be converted into tools of discrimination.

"For your petty political gains, BJP, please do not turn our institutions into battlegrounds of faith. You are planting a time bomb that, once it goes off, will create a divide no one will ever be able to fix," his post on X reads.