UP BJP chief slams ‘PDA pathshala', calls it a ‘Samajwadi brainwash'
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Lucknow: State BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary condemned the teaching of lessons like 'A for Akhilesh Yadav' and 'D for Dimple Yadav' to children in the 'PDA pathshala' started by the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Saharanpur.
Chaudhary termed it a conspiracy to mix political poison in the tender consciousness of children. He also called it an attempt at "Samajwadi brainwash".
He stated that children's education would not be allowed to become a "laboratory of politics". He said that even when the SP was running the govt, it played with the future of children and is doing so even today.
"The Samajwadi Party has stooped to a new low. Even in the pathshala, their thinking could not go beyond the family.
If they were really concerned about the future of children, they would have taught children about great men. They would have taught children A for APJ Abdul Kalam. The basic character of SP is to lie and mislead people," he charged.
He said that teaching "such lessons" was a reprehensible attempt to impose political ideology on the minds of children. "Education should be kept free from politics, so that children can develop unbiased and logical thinking," he said.
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Chaudhary mentioned that when the SP was running the govt (2012-2017), the education system of UP collapsed. There was shortage of teachers in schools, dilapidated buildings and copying mafia was dominant. He said improvement in education is unprecedented in UP under chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
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