Delhi Congress has slammed the BJP ruled government in the city to ban issuance of new Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificates ahead of admission sessions in schools and other institutes.
Condemning the move by the Delhi government, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav said that the BJP government in Delhi was making a concerted move to deny education to poor children from the EWS category by taking a decision to ban EWS certificates in the name of malpractices.
He said that this move will snatch the rights of the poor to get education, and to come into the mainstream of life.
“If there was rigging in providing EWS certificates, the collusion of the education department should be thoroughly probed, and punish the guilty instead of targeting the helpless poor people, who struggle to educate their children,” Yadav added.
He said that Delhi Congress will strongly oppose the BJP government’s move to deny EWS certificates to the poor, which only exposes the anti-poor attitude of the BJP.
He further said that BJP came to power in Delhi after misleading the voters with false promises, but after capturing power, it was unleashing its anti-people, anti-poor policies one by one, without fulfilling any of its election promises, to subjugate the economically weaker sections.
Yadav said that private schools have 25 per cent reservation for EWS class students, while youth with EWS certificates get 10 per cent reservation in jobs. He said that the BJP, in its manifesto, had made promises like upliftment of the poor and giving employment to the youth, but the BJP Government was constantly betraying the people of Delhi by denying them their just rights.
Earlier, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also slammed the government and said that it was deliberately preventing the marginalized from availing of reservation in private schools and hospitals.
Addressing a press conference, AAP’s Delhi State president Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the revenue department has been ordered not to issue new EWS certificates pending a review.
Meanwhile BJP refuted all the allegations and said that the chief minister Rekha Gupta has not imposed any ban on issuance of EWS certificate but there had been discrepancies which have been taken up for investigation.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva stated that Rekha Gupta has taken cognizance of complaints regarding the misuse of EWS certificate in availing government benefits, the AAP has panicked and is spreading confusion by falsely claiming that the issuance of certificate has been stopped.
