Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today questioned the stony silence of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for not congratulating the students and teachers of Punjab on getting top rank in the National Achievement Survey conducted by the union education ministry across the country in November last year.
“I am surprised over the stony silence of our Chief Minister Sardar Bhagwant Singh Mann as it is a matter of pride and glory for all the Punjabis”, Warring said in a statement, adding, “or the government has turned stone deaf and cannot hear and bear anything other than the Delhi Model, which fell way behind the Punjab model”.
The PCC president said the silence of the Chief Minister and his party was obvious, as they cannot afford to acknowledge the achievements of the Congress government. “They must be shocked as to how they can sell a model that they claim so successful when it fell way behind the Punjab model that they seek to improve”, he said while having a swipe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s oft repeated claims about ‘Delhi Model’ of education.
Warring urged the Chief Minister that as a proud Punjabi he should not have any hesitations in glorifying the Punjab Model wherever he goes, whether to Gujarat or Himachal Pradesh. “Instead of parroting Kejriwal’s failed Delhi Model, as was revealed in the recent NAS, you should proudly propagate the successful Punjab Model”, he advised the Chief Minister.
“We don’t want or expect you to acknowledge the achievement of the Congress government in improving the education system in the state, but at least have the moral courage to acknowledge the achievements of your own Punjabi teachers and students who have outshone everyone in the country, including those who study in Delhi”, Warring told Mann.
The PCC president pointed out, Punjab had maintained a consistent record of topping in education performance consecutively for two years under Congress government. He said, while Punjab topped in 2020 in Performance Grade Index, in 2021 it topped in the National Achievement Survey and it all happened during the Congress government, a fact that certainly would not sound good to those who have always tried to belittle and degrade Punjab and Punjab Model to sell their “Delhi Model”, which stood nowhere in comparison to already existing and established Punjab Model.
