Gorakhpur : Samajwadi Party and education are two banks of a river which can never meet, and a party opposed to education can never be a well-wisher of teachers.
There was a time when teachers had to carry guns to schools for their safety,” he said, recounting an incident of 2004 when he encountered a woman teacher cycling to school with a gun slung over her shoulder. He said teachers and education personnel, from the basic to university levels, had been provided cashless medical treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh. Yogi said his govt constituted a committee in 2018 and allocated Rs 10,000 crore in early 2019, enabling pension accounts to be opened for 14 lakh govt employees. He accused the previous govt of committing irregularities in recruitment and said that more than 1.5 lakh teaching posts were vacant when the BJP formed govt in 2017.
It failed to address the concerns of teachers when it was in power,” the CM said while addressing a Shikshak Matdata Samvad programme at Mahant Digvijaynath Park in Gorakhpur, in support of BJP candidate Dhruv Kumar Tripathi for Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers’ constituency in the MLC election. “SP’s politics is confined to family interests and wealthy individuals. “Teachers, students and educational institutions faced insecurity, poor infrastructure and rampant copying during previous SP govts. Referring to Rajya Sabha elections, he claimed that the party’s candidate choices reflected this approach.