Reacting to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s remarks about the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators being fit for the post of parliamentary secretaries, many of whom he said were engineers and doctors, Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta said a third of the party’s MLAs “have educational qualifications only up to Class XII’.
On Wednesday, Mr. Gupta had said that the Chief Minister “boasted in his press conference in context of the parliamentary secretaries that his party has the most qualified MLAs fit to be parliamentary secretaries”.
These, Mr. Gupta said quoting Mr. Kejriwal, include doctors and engineers.
However, Mr. Gupta added that the Chief Minister had gone a step ahead when he “compared his highly educated party to other parties whose MLAs are uneducated.”
‘CM misleading people’
Releasing the names of 22 AAP MLAs whose educational qualifications range between Classes V and XII, Mr. Gupta also questioned the Chief Minister’s argument, while hinting at the fact that one of his MLAs happened to have fake degrees.
“The list clearly shows that one-third of AAP MLAs have only studied up to Class XII, and that the Chief Minister is misleading the public by creating the impression that he is the most superior among his colleagues and that he runs the best government in the country,” Mr. Gupta said.
“Surprisingly, six of them, that is Rajesh Gupta, Jarnail Singh, Shiv Charan Goel, Manoj Kumar, Avtar Singh and Sharad Chauhan, are parliamentary secretaries sitting over IAS and DANICS officers, interfering in day-to-day affairs of the most important departments,” he added while calling the situation “a sad state of affairs”.
Gupta released names of 22 MLAs whose qualifications range between
Classes V and XII
