Govt schools in Jalandhar ‘painted in AAP colours’: Pargat ‘exposes cynical ploy’

Jalandhar: Slamming the Punjab govt for shamelessly painting govt schools in the colours of the Aam Aadmi Party flag "under a disastrously failed education policy", Congress leader Pargat Singh on Saturday said the "cynical ploy" was nothing short of an attempt to brainwash Punjab's people and divide innocent schoolchildren along partisan lines."The Punjab govt must stop this outrageous discrimination of children based on party hues. CM Bhagwant Mann needs to break free from Delhi's suffocating shadow and show some basic humanity in this matter," Pargat Singh said in a statement issued here on Saturday.Highlighting the case of Govt Girls Senior Secondary School on Ladowali Road in Jalandhar East block, Pargat said the school's walls were recently renovated and adorned with diverse, creative paintings, "but following fresh orders from the AAP overlords, they were brutally repainted at enormous expense, wasting precious public money, in the party's garish flag shades, erasing all traces of neutrality".The Jalandhar Cantt legislator also challenged education minister Harjot Singh Bains to name the so-called "expert" who dictated these "ridiculous" colours. "Everyone knows these ‘experts' are Delhi imports, micromanaging Punjab's govt on everything from paint choices to policy disasters. The AAP unleashed a horde of 100 Delhi puppeteers on Punjab, turning our state into a remote-controlled farce," he alleged.Further attacking the ruling party, the senior leader alleged that in 2020, AAP leader Manish Sisodia flaunted a "model school" in Delhi, only for 5,000 students to be hastily shifted elsewhere by 2024 after the building was declared dangerously unsafe. "This is the true face of AAP's education scam. And it's the same story in Delhi, where their hyped ‘model schools' are being demolished one by one," he said.MSID:: 127821166 413 |