AAP claim on teachers being told to count dogs false: govt.

Education Minister Ashish Sood connected Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of spreading misinformation implicit its allegation that the authorities had assigned teachers the work of counting and managing stray dogs.

Addressing a property conference, Mr. Sood said AAP leaders were resorting to mendacious claims aft having mislaid the Assembly election. “Instead of accepting defeat, AAP leaders are spreading lies for societal media traction,” helium said, denying that teachers had been fixed immoderate specified duties. The Minister challenged the enactment to marque nationalist immoderate bid supporting its claim.

Later, AAP main Arvind Kejriwal reiterated the allegation successful a station connected X. “Will teachers successful Delhi’s authorities schools thatch children, oregon volition they number dogs connected the streets instead? This bid from the BJP’s Delhi authorities exposes their reasoning and priorities,” helium wrote, accusing the authorities of “insulting teachers and ruining schools”.

Mr. Kejriwal cited a November 20 bid issued by the Education Department, which stated that the “primary focus” of the directive was the “identification, vaccination and sterilisation of stray dogs to guarantee information for students and the public”.

Responding to this, Mr. Sood said the bid did not delegate teachers immoderate counting oregon animal-control duties. “We decided that schools should beryllium alert of however to study complaints related to stray canine attacks and guarantee that dogs bash not participate schoolhouse premises,” helium said. 

Mr. Sood accused AAP of making akin “false claims” successful the past. He referred to a tweet from December 25 that alleged the authorities had ordered enactment against children who came to schools dressed arsenic Santa Claus. “If AAP has immoderate specified order, wherefore is it not making it public?” helium said.

‘Politics of lies’

The Minister claimed that the Opposition enactment had neither carried retired important enactment successful the acquisition assemblage nor contributed meaningfully to the city’s development.

“They relied solely connected lies, sound and a authorities of allegations and counter-allegations,” helium said.

AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “By assigning stray canine duties to teachers, the BJP authorities is openly undermining nationalist education.”