Hitting out at the BJP for its “double standards”, the ruling Congress in Rajasthan on Wednesday highlighted its guarantee for free English-medium education to every student if the party is voted back to power in the November 25 Assembly election. Calling it a “revolutionary step”, the party affirmed that it would benefit underprivileged people unable to send their children to good schools.
Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera led the charge against the Opposition BJP, asking why the party leaders were raising an objection to the guarantee when their own children were studying abroad and getting English-medium education. “The BJP leaders proudly show their children’s photos and post them on social media. They feel elated that their sons and daughters are studying in foreign institutions.”
Mr. Khera, chairman of AICC media and publicity department and a Congress Working Committee member, said at a press conference here that the BJP leaders were perhaps troubled by the fact that the children of poor labourers and farmers would very soon start competing with their children while talking in fluent English. This attitude depicted “hollowness and double standards” of the BJP, he said.
