Guwahati: Chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal and the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), made fun of the Assam chief minister and his family for reportedly running a private school in the state.
CM Kejriwal said, “In a state where someone from the chief minister’s family is involved in running a private school, distressed people of that state will not be able to acquire an education,” in his address to the AAP’s first major political gathering in Guwahati on Sunday.
Arvind Kejriwal asserted that not a single public school will operate effectively in such a situation.
“In Delhi and Punjab, previously all political leaders ran their own private schools; they ruined the government schools forcing people to send their children go to private schools. When the AAP came to power, no schools were run by any MLAs or ministers. We changed the scenario of the public schools. I invite the people of Assam to visit Delhi and see the condition of Delhi’s government schools,” added CM Kejriwal.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was also extended an invitation to visit Delhi by Delhi’s chief minister after he arrived in Guwahati.
CM Kejriwal said, “The people of Assam have given an opportunity to each and every party to serve them for their welfare. However, no improvement or change is witnessed. Whichever party came to power betrayed and broke the trust of people.”
CM Kejriwal likened the progress made in Delhi under the AAP to that made in Assam given that both governments were established around the same time.
Notably, the chief minister Kejriwal and his counterpart from Punjab Bhagwant Mann came to the region with the primary goal of bolstering the spirits of the AAP’s supporters in Assam, as well as the secondary goal of establishing AAP’s presence in the northeast as a genuine alternative to the region’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).