NEW DELHI: AAP chief and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday alleged a “strong” friendship between Prime Minister Narenda Modi and Punjab CM Amarinder Singh forward of the Punjab elections, after the state was ranked primary within the Efficiency Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 by the Centre by way of college training.
The Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) is in opposition within the Congress-governed Punjab the place Meeting polls are slated for early subsequent yr.
Modi’s BJP is one other opposition get together within the state.
“This report claims that authorities faculties in Punjab have emerged to be one of the best, whereas pointing that authorities faculties in Delhi should not up to speed. This report is simply one other technique to present the blessings Modiji has showered on Captain Amarinder Singh, extending a hand of friendship much like the earlier election.”
“Unusually sufficient, this report has been launched at a time when individuals have been elevating questions concerning the efficiency and inadequacies of the Punjab authorities in training,” Sisodia mentioned throughout an internet briefing.
The AAP chief alleged that the report factors in the direction of the “strong friendship” between the PM and the Punjab chief minister, in lieu of the upcoming Punjab polls.
Crediting the Punjab authorities with one of the best authorities faculties within the nation at a time when the state has seen the closure of greater than 800 faculties, and several other faculties have been discovered to be functioning as alcohol factories is a farce, Sisodia mentioned.
“It’s crystal clear that Captain Amarinder Singh has the blessings of Modiji and central authorities for the upcoming elections and we will contemplate this report as a present to Captain Singh,” he added.
The AAP chief claimed that high quality training and studying have turn into a “joke” in Punjab authorities faculties.
Alleging that the report has been launched to cover the “inadequacies” in high quality training of Punjab, he claimed many authorities college college students have needed to undergo as a result of “gross negligence” of the state authorities.
“Within the final three to 4 years, virtually 800 authorities faculties have shut down in Punjab, and have been given to NGOs or different establishments to operate. Many youngsters needed to bear the brunt and oldsters needed to switch their youngsters to personal faculties.”
“In a couple of days, Modiji will launch one other report claiming that Punjab authorities’s hospitals are one of the best within the nation. That is only a collaborative tactic for the upcoming elections; it’s a technique of the state authorities to cover behind the garb of false stories and canopy up for his or her negligence,” he mentioned.
Accusing the Punjab chief minister of creating a “joke” out of the entire training system within the state, he mentioned the report has been launched to “ridicule” the system additional.
“Modiji has launched this report to cover his (Singh’s) inadequacies and bless him for the upcoming elections. Following the discharge of this report, all that the Punjab authorities has carried out is launch commercials and conceal behind this farce to cowl up its inadequacies,” he mentioned.
