Teachers once trained abroad under the Arvind Kejriwal government are now reduced to clapping props at BJP rallies. Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia blasted the BJP for ordering teachers to attend PM Modi’s ribbon-cutting event merely to clap. The senior AAP leader charged that the BJP has no interest in education and instead seeks to keep people deliberately uneducated.
During a media interaction, senior AAP leader and father of Delhi’s education revolution, Manish Sisodia, stated, “PM Narendra Modi inaugurated road projects in Delhi on Sunday. It is a good thing. But, What is shocking and shameful is that the BJP’s Delhi government issued government orders forcing all teachers to attend the ribbon-cutting event just to clap. The BJP is unable to find people who will willingly attend their programmes. Since no one is ready to come, they issued a diktat that every principal and teacher of Delhi’s government schools must be present, so that when the Prime Minister cuts the ribbon, there will be applause. This is deeply shameful,” he stated.
Exposing BJP’s intent on education, Manish Sisodia said, “We all know that the BJP has nothing to do with education. Their conspiracy is to keep the people of this country uneducated by providing poor quality education. But even then, it was never expected that thousands of teachers in Delhi—who barely get a Sunday off to spend time with their families or to do their work—would be forced to leave everything and stand at a road inauguration event just to clap. This is utterly disgraceful.”
Citing the reverence for teachers in Indian tradition, he asserted, “Our country has always said, ‘Guru Govind dou khade, kake lagoon paay. Balihari Guru aapne, Govind diyo bataye.’ But today the situation has been turned upside down. PM Modi and the Guru both are present—PM Modi cuts the ribbon and gives a speech from the stage, while the Guru stands below and claps. Is this the responsibility of teachers? Is it not an insult to the teaching profession when the government issues orders saying that when the Prime Minister inaugurates a road, every teacher must stand there and clap? The BJP must apologise to Delhi’s teachers for this insult.”
Recalling the AAP government’s record before BJP took control, Manish Sisodia said, “Just a few months ago, when Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP government was in power in Delhi, orders were issued to send principals to IIMs, to Finland, to Singapore, and teachers to Cambridge for training. That was the atmosphere in Delhi. But now the scene is that the Prime Minister is cutting the ribbon of a road, and all the teachers are standing there to clap. This is shameful. Forcing teachers to clap in such programmes is an insult to their profession. The BJP must apologise to teachers.”
He took to ‘X’ and wrote, “Sending Delhi’s teachers under government orders to clap at Modi ji’s rally is a grave insult by the BJP. Teachers are nation-builders, not rally crowds. Just a few months ago, under Arvind Kejriwal’s government, these very teachers were being sent to Finland and Cambridge for training. Today, the BJP has reduced them to mere ‘clappers.’ This is utterly shameful, and the BJP must apologize to Delhi’s teachers for this insulting decision.”
Meanwhile, pointing to BJP’s failure in Delhi, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said, “No one is even ready to come and listen to PM Modi. BJP’s politics has completely collapsed. In just six months, they have ruined Delhi—school fees have been increased, parents have been assaulted, electricity is being cut for six hours, roads have turned into drains, homes are collapsing, people are dying.”
The AAP Rajya Sabha MP asserted, “The BJP has destroyed the lives of our people from UP, Bihar, and Purvanchal who have lived in Delhi for 50 years. They have been uprooted and ruined. In just six months, such a situation has been created that no one is willing to listen to Narendra Modi. That is why they are summoning sanitation workers and teachers to fill their rallies. They may create fake crowds through such artificial means, but this will bring them no benefit.”
