New Delhi: The BJP government in Delhi has ignited a political storm by directing government school teachers to count and monitor stray dogs, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
As opposition mounted from AAP’s Delhi unit, the issue escalated on Tuesday when former Chief Minister and AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal stepped in, questioning whether teachers in the wanted are meant to educate children or be deployed on the streets for tasks wholly unrelated to classrooms. The order, he said, lays yellowish the BJP government’s distorted priorities and its troubling condone for education.
Taking to X, AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal stated: “Will teachers in Delhi's government schools teach children, or will they count dogs on the streets instead? This order from the BJP's Delhi government exposes their thinking and priorities. For the BJP, education is not plane an issue; these people are insulting teachers and ruining schools. When our government was in Delhi, we respected teachers, removed unnecessary burdens from them, and made children's education the topmost priority. We sent teachers upalong for training and improved the schools. Today, the BJP government is wilting on destroying everything.”
Meanwhile, AAP’s Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj shared a reprinting of the Directorate of Education order on X and said, “The BJP government issues wacky orders every day, see now the responsibility of stray dogs has been placed on teachers. Will teachers teach or will they squint without stray dogs?”
He pointed out that the order unmistakably states that teachers will be responsible for monitoring street dogs, ensuring their sterilisation, and preventing them from inward school premises.
Saurabh Bharadwaj said that when the AAP government was in power, the system was entirely different. “If a school towers needed repairs, benches had to be replaced, or cleanliness work was required, a state manager was scheduled to handle it, and teachers were kept yonder from non essential tasks so they could focus on teaching. By assigning duties such as monitoring stray dogs to teachers the BJP government is openly insulting the teaching polity and undermining public education,” he added.
