Guj min earns wrath for ‘leave state jibe’

Gujarat Education Minister Jitubhai Vaghani’s Wednesday statement that “those who have issues with the State’s education system may leave Gujarat”, has prompted Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to taunt him on Thursday that an AAP government in the State would soon remove the need for this.

Even as Vaghani has been massively trolled on social media and his comment was among the top tweets on Thursday, the Congress has asserted that, “Gujarat is nobody’s ancestral property.”

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Gujarat unit has demanded the minister’s “apology to the students and people”. State AAP leader Isudan Gadhvi tweeted, “This is an insult to those who are dependent on the government’s education system.”

Stung by the AAP’s insinuations over the “pathetic” state of Gujarat Government’s schools, Vaghani said in Rajkot on Wednesday that, “If you have issues with Gujarat’s education system, you may leave the state or the country.” Vaghani made this statement after inaugurating the new building of government school number 16, Sant Tulsidas School, in Rajkot.

The minister said, “You were born in Gujarat, studied and made careers here and educated your children here, now if you suddenly find problems with the education system here, you may please leave the State.” “Move your family to another city or state or even country if you don’t like the system here,” Vaghani continued.

He said the Gujarat Government had welcomed everyone to come here and make valuable and constructive suggestions, but “these days people only wish to criticise and be happy with it.”