‘BJP a party of illiterates’: Manish Sisodia

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
27:
Delhi
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
on
Saturday
came
down
heavily
on
the
BJP,
by
calling
it
a
“party
of
illiterates.”

“This
(BJP)
is
a
party
of
illiterates
and
wants
to
keep
country
illiterate.
In
their
own
states,
they’ve
shut
down
several
government
schools.
They
should
investigate
why
so
many
government
schools
in
their
rule
have
shut
down,”
Hindustan
Times
quoted
Sisodia
as
stating
at
a
press
meet.

He
was
responding
to
the
reports
which
claimed
that
Delhi
L-G
VK
Saxena
sought
a
report
on
acting
on
a
CVC
report
on
an
inquiry
into
the
construction
of
classrooms
in
government
schools.

Sisodia
accused
the
saffron
party
of
creating
the
issue
after
it
did
not
find
anything
to
target
the
AAP
in
excise
policy
case.

According
to
him,
over
72000
schools
were
closed
in
the
BJP-ruled
states
between
2015
and
2021.”Over
51000
were
shut
in
2018-19
itself.
Private
schools
are
thriving
in
areas
they
are
shutting
govt
schools
in,
those
private
schools
have
been
built
by
their
own
MLAs.
Almost
12000
private
schools
have
been
opened,”
Sisodia
added.

A
few
days
ago,
the
Deputy
Chief
Minister
claimed
the
BJP
offered
him
the
chief
minister’s
post
if
he
broke
the
Aam
Aadmi
Party
(AAP).

“The
messenger
said
one
was
that
all
big
cases
registered
against
you
by
CBI-ED
will
be
taken
back.
The
other
offer
was
that
I
break
the
party
and
they
will
make
you
chief
minister,”
the
AAP
leader
claimed.

“I
gave
a
clear
political
answer
to
them,
saying
Delhi
Chief
Minister
Arvind
Kejriwal
is
my
political
guru
and
I
have
learnt
politics
from
him.
I
have
not
come
into
politics
to
be
CM
or
PM,”
Sisodia
said.