New Delhi: Jailed former Dy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday wrote an open letter from Tihar jail questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational qualification while stressing the need for having an educated person to occupy the country’s top elected post.
Having a “less educated” Prime Minister was “extremely dangerous” for the country, wrote Sisodia.
This is the latest in a series of attacks by Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders on Modi over his education.
Attacking the Prime Minister, the former Delhi education minister alleged that the PM neither understood science nor “the importance of education” even as he accused the BJP-led Centre of shutting down 60,000 government schools across the country over the last few years.
“We are living in the 21st century today. New innovations in science and technology are taking place all over the world every day. The world is talking about Artificial Intelligence…given this, when I hear the PM say that dirty gas funnelled from a drain can be used to make tea or food, my heart sinks,” Sisodia wrote.
“Can this gas be used to make tea or food? No! He becomes the butt of jokes across the world and children in school and college make fun of him when he says that aircraft behind clouds cannot be detected by radar. Such comments of his are extremely dangerous for the country,” he added.
The Prime Minister’s statements to this effect, Sisodia sought to argue, betrayed how “less educated” India’s PM was to the world and how he lacked even foundational knowledge about science.
World leaders visiting the country and hugging the PM led to heavy costs for India because what they were getting “signed away” from the PM was beyond his comprehension, he added.
“Today, the youth of the country is aspirational...it wants to win the world. Does a less educated PM have the capability to fulfil these aspirations?” Sisodia asked. (with Agency inputs)
