Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has dared the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh to stop the PDA pathshala started by his party.
In the wake of the closure of several primary schools by the state in the name of merger, he said, “Police cannot stop PDA Pathshala. CM Yogi himself should come to the Pathshala and see the situation there. The government itself has accepted that it has closed many schools while some have been merged. SP workers will continue to teach students until new teachers are recruited in those schools.”
The SP president was speaking to the media after paying tributes to late Janeshwar Mishra on his birth anniversary at the Janeshwar Mishra Park here on Tuesday.
“The sad thing is that even the Britishers did not register an FIR against anyone for studies. This government thinks it will shut down our PDA school with the help of police. We socialists take a pledge that until the government sends a teacher-principal there, the PDA school will continue to run,” he said.
Akhilesh Yadav further said, “CM Yogi needs to visit schools as well. At least he should visit schools and see their condition. The roof of a school collapsed in his own district injuring several children. We opened Abhinay, Sanskriti School in this Lucknow city. The Sanskriti School is the best school in the country and the world, but they are against education. Those who are against education are the biggest mafia”.
“Everyone knows who is the biggest mafia in the state. One does not become anything by changing clothes. Today, they are talking about land. You should find out, all the ponds in Lucknow have been occupied by the BJP and all the wetlands have been occupied by the BJP people.”
Those who used to accuse others of links with the underworld did they not have any connection with the underworld, asked without naming anyone.
Talking about the flood condition in UP, Akhilesh Yadav said, “More than Rs 20,000 crore were spent in Prayagraj. But what is the condition today? People are unable to venture out of their homes. Leave alone besic necessities, even drinking water is not available to them during the floods. Children can’t go to school. Under te circumstances, there is no arrangement for treatment for those who fall sick.”
“Same is the condition of Smart City Kyoto (Varanasi) and Gorakhpur. More than Rs 20,000 crore have been spent on the development of these two cities. Lucknow continues to have a BJP mayor, but look at the condition here, all the drains are clogged,” he alleged.