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Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) accused erstwhile Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of making "wrong and misleading statements" regarding the deployment of authorities schoolhouse teachers for counting of stray dogs and demanded a nationalist apology.
In a missive addressed to Mr. Kejriwal, the Minister said, "You person publically alleged that teachers are being assigned duties related to the counting of stray dogs. These assertions are not lone incorrect but besides magnitude to a superior misrepresentation of facts," the Minister said, adding that "The Government circular connected this substance is already successful the nationalist domain." There was nary contiguous absorption from the Aam Aadmi Party.
Referring to Mr. Kejriwal's administrative experience, the Minister said, "Given your inheritance successful Administration, arsenic the Former Chief Minister of Delhi, your statements cannot beryllium regarded arsenic specified misunderstandings." Instead, the remarks appeared to beryllium "part of a deliberate effort to derail the creaseless implementation of this important information initiative," the missive said.
The Minister besides accused the AAP of pursuing a signifier of "shoot-and-scoot" politics, described arsenic "making unfounded allegations, creating sensation, and past retreating from responsibility."
"This benignant of authorities creates avoidable turmoil, undermines nationalist confidence, and disrupts governance," the Minister said.
Mr. Sood underlined that "as Education Minister," helium "cannot, and volition not, licence specified practices to interfere with the payment of children oregon the functioning of schools.” Calling for accountability, the Minister urged Mr. Kejriwal to "make a nationalist apology to the radical of Delhi for spreading disinformation," and said that "a liable governmental sermon requires restraint, honesty, and respect for schools."
"I sincerely anticipation you will, henceforth, refrain from specified falsehoods, malicious and misleading statements, and arsenic penance for this shameful act, connection a nationalist apology," the missive added.
An FIR was registered by the constabulary connected a ailment by the Directorate of Education (DoE), accusing definite societal media users of circulating "false and misleading claims" astir schoolhouse teachers successful Delhi being asked to number stray dogs.
