Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring accused Aam Aadmi Party govt in Punjab of using its “proxy”, Cockroach Janta Party, to divert public attention from Gulzar Singh’s suicide abetted by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema.Warring also questioned the credentials of CJP in praising the failed education system in Punjab which had completely collapsed under AAP govt.PCC president alleged that it is no secret that CJP is a proxy of AAP and it was subtly and openly pursuing AAP agenda. “When the AAP govt in Punjab was under tremendous pressure to dismiss its finance minister Harpal Cheema for abetting a Dalit, Gulzar Singh’s suicide, it brought the CJP activists for the so-called audit of Punjab schools,” he said, while adding that this was done deliberately so that the focus shifts from Gulzar Singh’s suicide to the sorry state of education.He remarked that AAP knew it very well that CJP’s praise for its failed education system will boomerang. But it still went ahead in the hope that it may push Gulzar Singh’s suicide to the background. “But we will not let that happen and Cheema has to resign and go to the jail and we will ensure that,” he asserted.Referring to the “sorry state” of education in the state, Warring said as many as 18,015 posts out of 1,03,052 sanctioned teacher posts were lying vacant, while 1,113 of the state’s 1,927 senior secondary schools did not have principals.Punjab Congress chief also cited a decline in enrolment in govt schools, saying the number of students studying in them had fallen by around 1.54 lakh, while private schools had registered an increase of approximately 82,000 students.
