Jailed AAP leader Manish Sisodia has targeted the Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his educational qualifications through an open letter to people of India and asked should not be biggest manager of country be educated. Sisodia had earlier too written letters from jail.
The BJP was quick to go on the offensive, accusing the AAP MLA of holding “only a diploma” himself and advising him to judge people on the basis of their maturity and wisdom instead of academic degrees.
In the letter which was posted on Twitter by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his former deputy said, “It is very dangerous for the country if the prime minister is less educated.”(Narendra) Modi does not understand science… Modi ji does not understand the importance of education,” Sisodia claimed in the letter, alleging that 60,000 schools have been closed in the country in the last few years.It is necessary to have an educated prime minister for the progress of India,” he said.
These remarks come as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has raised several questions about PM Modi’s education.
“We are living in the 21st century today. New innovations in science and technology are taking place all over the world every day.
“The world is talking about Artificial Intelligence…given this, when I hear the PM say that dirty gas funnelled from a drain can be used to make tea or food, my heart sinks,” Sisodia, wrote.
“Echoing Sisodia’s sentiments, Kejriwal said it is “dangerous” for the country to have an uneducated Prime Minister.”Manish Sisodia wrote a letter to the nation from jail. The Prime Minister being less educated is very dangerous for the country.
“Modi does not understand science. Modi does not understand the importance of education. 60,000 schools have closed in the last few years. It is necessary to have an educated Prime Minister for the progress of India,” the Chief Minister tweeted in Hindi.
Hitting back at the AAP leader, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said, “Before asking about the educational qualification of others, Sisodia should tell what is his own educational qualification.” Sachdeva also claimed that Delhi government schools’ performance took a plunge when Sisodia was the education minister.
“For eight years Sisodia worked on schools as an event manager and not as the education minister of Delhi.
As a result, now up to 40 per cent of students in government schools either fail in classes 9 and 11 or appear in compartment exams. Class 10 and class 12 students are also in disarray,” alleged the Delhi BJP president.
Taking a dig at Sisodia, the Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said that a person who is in jail in the excise policy scam , now giving gyan on PM Modi’ s education qualification.
“AAP leaders are diverting the main issue of corruption by raising PM Modi’s qualifications. Their two ministers are in jail,” said.