Lok Sabha 2019: Politics over schools and classrooms turns ugly in Delhi as AAP, BJP spar over education model

As the Lok Sabha election of 2019 is approaching, the politics has taken a considerable turn over the events in Delhi and both AAP, BJP have taken it into the classrooms by targeting education system.

The Congress, which is a distant third in the state after the debacle in 2015 polls securing 0 seat, is trying to be in the competition and Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit is now wooing voters by mentioning that it was the Congress which gave modern textbooks to the government schools.

AAP leader Atishi Marlena, who is credited for transforming the government education system, has said “We have lived in a country where people have voted on the basis of caste, religion...people have voted on the basis of distribution of money and liquor....the fact that for the first time education is being debated as a political issue, I think is a great step forward for our country.”

BJP, on the other hand, feels that it’s a crime to politicize the education system and AAP must not take the politics inside the classrooms. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari has stated the same in dissenting tone against the AAP.

“Children are the future of the country. At this stage of their lives, you can't influence them politically, that is what the Aam Aadmi Party has done. A chief minister gives political speeches in classrooms and asks kids to tell their parents to not vote for Narendra Modi... It is a crime to drag young minds into politics.”

Anupam Sethi, a teacher told the NDTV, “We give 100 per cent credit to the government for organising something like this. They are students of a government school, but here the whole world has opened up for them.”

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