An online petition on Change.org by JNU professor Ira Bhaskar urges Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to reinstate Atishi Marlena, the former adviser to Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia, who has been “instrumental in transforming city’s government schools over the past three years”. The petition reached its target of 5,000 signatures on Thursday.
“Your Ministry in the Central government, led by the BJP, has ordered that she be sacked from her position claiming her position was never approved by the Centre. The phenomenal improvements in quality of education offered to children in Delhi’s government schools are a product of her quiet labour behind the scenes,” reads the petition.
It adds that Ms. Marlena’s contribution has been acknowledged by academics, organisations working in education, politicians across party lines and even the sharpest critics of the Aam Aadmi Party.
