BJP leaders target AAP, Sisodia
LUCKNOW : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) targeted Delhi’s deputy chief minister and education minister Manish Sisodia with Uttar Pradesh’s deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya advising Sisodia to first compare Delhi’s population with that of UP before comparing the government schools of the two states.
“He is here to do just politics and people of the state know it. There is nothing more to it,” Maurya said. Maurya’s attack came after Sisodia arrived in Lucknow to check the status of government schools and to debate with state’s leaders on education system and infrastructure in the two states.
A video clip widely shared by AAP leaders showed Sisodia locked in an argument over phone with Lucknow’s police officials after being stopped from visiting a government school.The AAP leadership claimed that Delhi’s government schools had undergone a makeover under Arvind Kejriwal’s rule even as UP’s schools languished. However, even as the political drama was being played out, former AAP MLA-turnedBJP leader Kapil Mishra targeted Sisodia. Terming AAP Delhi government’s education policies as ‘advertisement revolution’, Mishra challenged Sisodia to first respond to his ten queries.
“The education revolution in Delhi has been a sham and nothing but the advertisement revolution,” he tweeted and then asked his ten queries to Sisodia— the first high profile AAP leader to visit the state after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in which AAP faced a drubbing.
Meanwhile, BJP spokesman Navin Srivastava also targeted Sisodia.
“They want to discuss education models of the two states but I want to first ask them about what kind of model they practised when they cheated people of UP and Bihar during lockdown? How after first promising help, they left them to fend for themselves? Can a government which engages in deceit be trusted with imparting quality education,” asked Srivastava.
They want to discuss education models of the two states but I want to first ask them about what kind of model they practised when they cheated people of UP and Bihar during lockdown? NAVIN SRIVASTAVA, spokesman