NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday cited a purported communication of Delhi government that highlighted “Corruption and other deficiencies” in construction of many school buildings to slam the AAP dispensation in the national capital. Addressing a press conference here, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra shared the content of the letter to assert that this has brought forth the real truth about the Delhi government’s handling of education sector even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been making big claims about “revolutionising” the sector. “A number of complaints have been received from various schools regarding non completion of work, use of low quality material, various deficiencies in the construction by PWD (Public Works Department). These shortcomings hamper the very purpose of the Directorate of Education,” Patra said, quoting from the letter dated July 20. The complaints mentioned in the letter include corruption, dangerous condition of building, work using low quality material and various other deficiencies, he noted. “Due to the above mentioned complaints, running of the schools has been very much difficult and it poses threat to the students and staff and school properties also,” he said, reading out from the communication. The BJP leader said the letter has raised the same questions, which his party has been asking for long. Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, who held the PWD portfolio and is now in jail on money laundering charges, used to make tall claims about their government’s work in education sector, he said, alleging that it was all propaganda. The complaints, he added, are related to work of the PWD department which was helmed by Jain. “Kejriwal and Sisodia gave him clean chit. Was this the good work he was doing,” Patra asked. “Education is not a matter of propaganda and advertisement. It is a priority sector,” he said, adding that the BJP wants answers from Kejriwal to the charges of corruption and use of substandard material.
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