The Free Press Journal

After Guj edu min’s leave state jibe, Sisodia ‘goes’ to schools

- DARSHAN DESAI / Ahmedabad

Days after Gujarat Education Minister Jitubhai Vaghani asserted that those who had issues with the State’s education system could move base to any other State, the Aam Aadmi Party grabbed the opportunit­y with Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday visiting State-run schools in Vaghani’s constituen­cy in Bhavnagar district and posting pictures of their pathetic conditions.

While AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal retweeted these pictures with a comment “sad state of affairs” in Hindi, the party’s Twitter handle invoked the visit of Melania Trump, wife of former US President Donald Trump, to a Delhi government school in 2020.

“Now we understand why Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump refused to visit Gujarat government schools, and instead chose to see Delhi's,” the AAP tweeted in Hindi.

Manish Sisodia, who is also Delhi’s Education Minister, visited two schools in Bhavnagar that fall in his Gujarat counterpar­t’s constituen­cy. He shared several pictures of the schools and ridiculed the “Gujarat education model” and the BJP regime in the state. He asserted that, “These are instances of the type of government schools that the BJP's 27-year rule in Gujarat has given to its people.”

He said parents told him children and teachers went home to use toilets, and sometimes, they do not even return to the school. Kejriwal retweeted the pictures, saying it's “very sad” to see “this plight of government schools” in Gujarat.

The Delhi Chief Minister asserted in a Twitter post, “It’s been 75 years since we got independen­ce. We could not afford a good education. Why? If each child doesn’t get the best education, how will India progress?”

 ?? ?? While the schools have cobwebs, some rooms do not even have floors, forget desks for students. Sisodia also shared pictures of toilets of the schools in Bhavnagar, saying their conditions are such that one cannot stand at the place for even a minute. “How can a teacher stay in the school for 7 hours and teach children?” he asked in his Twitter post.
While the schools have cobwebs, some rooms do not even have floors, forget desks for students. Sisodia also shared pictures of toilets of the schools in Bhavnagar, saying their conditions are such that one cannot stand at the place for even a minute. “How can a teacher stay in the school for 7 hours and teach children?” he asked in his Twitter post.

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