AAP launches campaign against Delhi’s education bill

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched a citywide campaign against the BJP’s controversial school fee law, warning that it will empower private schools to hike fees arbitrarily while silencing parents. On Tuesday, AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj initiated the drive by distributing pamphlets outside a prominent school in Sheikh Sarai-1, joined by MLA Jarnail Singh in Tilak Nagar and several councillors across different constituencies.

AAP’s student wing—Association of Students for Alternative Politics (ASAP)—will now extend the campaign to every school gate, exposing a collusion between the BJP government and private school owners, and highlighting how the law lacks even a provision to roll back the fee hikes imposed this April.

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Bharadwaj alleged that the BJP government in Delhi has brought a law regarding private school fees that favours private school owners. To launch a protest against this bill, which exploits the middle-class parents, AAP has launched a campaign in all Delhi Assembly constituencies to raise awareness.

Former Delhi Health Minister further stated that their party will continue the campaign until parents understand that the BJP government, in collusion with school owners, has made such a law under which parents will remain mute spectators while private schools will be able to arbitrarily increase fees every year. “Recently, on April 1, the fees were increased, but this law has no provision to roll back that increase,” he warned.

At a press conference held at the AAP headquarters, he pointed out, “There are many flaws in this law, which the Aam Aadmi Party is continuously raising. Parents’ Associations have also been repeatedly seeking a meeting with CM Rekha Gupta, but no time has been given. They have also not been allowed to meet Education Minister Ashish Sood.”