SP will set up ‘pathshalas' in villageswhere govt has shut schools: Akhilesh
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Lucknow: Accusing the BJP govt of attacking the education system by shutting basic and primary schools in villages,
Samajwadi Party
president
Akhilesh Yadav
on Friday said his party would set up 'PDA Pathshalas' in such villages.
"When SP is voted to form the govt, these schools will be re-opened with better facilities," he said.
The announcement came amid reports that the govt has over shut 26,000 and merged another 5000 schools – mostly in rural areas.
"Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, we told the people how BJP was conspiring to change the Constitution of India. People voted against them and the BJP could not get the numbers to do so. Now they have started taking steps to weaken the Constitution by shutting schools and depriving the poor of their right to education enshrined in the Constitution," Akhilesh said.
"With schools being closed, poor children from PDA families will be deprived of education," he said, talking to the media in Kannauj.
Akhilesh called upon party functionaries to rope in retired teachers and educated youth to impart education to children in villages where schools have been closed by the govt. "I urge the retired teachers and educated youths to set up 'PDA Pathshalas' in such villages and impart education to poor children.
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We will not let poor children be deprived of education," he said.
Akhilesh assured people of his constituency that pathbreaking development projects would be launched in the region after the SP forms govt. "The BJP govt has neglected development projects across the state and particularly in parliamentary constituencies of the opposition leaders," he said.
"SP govt had set up a medical college in Kannauj, apart from a host of projects like cow milk plant, perfume park and kisan mandis but the BJP govt stalled these projects halfway through.
Had the BJP govt got the medical college operational, it would have provided specialised healthcare to people. The govt did not complete these projects apparently because they were started by the SP govt," Akhilesh said.
'Will defeat BJP in Bihar polls'
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the opposition will defeat BJP in Bihar polls. Responding to a media query. Akhilesh's comment comes close on the heels of RLD's Tejashwi Yadav saying that the way BJP was manipulating the electoral rolls in Bihar, the opposition may decide to boycott the polls.Akhilesh said the BJP was looking for ways to deny people their right to reservation. "The BJP has coined a new word– NFS (Not Found Suitable) - to deny reservation to the people," he said.
This was in apparent reference to appointments in various institutions where candidates were rejected after being termed as 'NFS'. SP alleged that these were mostly candidates from the PDA community.
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