“Melania Trump Told Modi She’ll Only See Delhi Schools”: Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has revealed he has discovered an necessary fan of his authorities’s work on enhancing faculty infrastructure and schooling within the nationwide capital. Simply final week, the Delhi authorities inaugurated over 12,000 “sensible school rooms” in 240 authorities colleges, which have been upgraded with designer desks, libraries and multipurpose halls, amongst different add-ons.

The fan of his authorities’s work on bettering colleges, Mr Kejriwal mentioned at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Rudhauli, is Melania Trump, the spouse of former US President Donald Trump. The Aam Aadmi Celebration chief mentioned Melania Trump insisted she wished to see Delhi authorities colleges when she and her husband got here to India in February 2020.

“She (Melania Trump) informed Modi ji in Delhi ‘I will go to see Kejriwal’s colleges’. She travels lots throughout the globe, but she has by no means made a request to see colleges in some other nation,” Mr Kejriwal mentioned.

“Modi tried very onerous to influence her, informed her ‘See our BJP colleges, see Yogi ji’s colleges, see Madhya Pradesh colleges’. However she mentioned she’s going to solely see Kejriwal’s colleges,” the Delhi Chief Minister mentioned to claps by supporters on the occasion.

“We felt honoured. The spouse of the world’s strongest man got here to see our faculty. She spent an hour, met college students, danced with them too. It’s a massive factor. We will need to have finished one thing good,” Mr Kejriwal mentioned, elevating each his arms amid extra claps.

Mr Kejriwal mentioned his authorities has constructed 20,000 school rooms – “equal to 400 colleges” – within the final seven years and upgraded authorities colleges with superior laboratories and different services. “There are elevators in colleges now. Authorities colleges in Delhi even have swimming swimming pools,” Mr Kejriwal mentioned. He requested the gang, “What number of colleges did Yogi ji made in Uttar Pradesh within the final 5 years? None. Not a single faculty in the entire of UP.”

Addressing a public assembly in Rudhauli constituency of Uttar Pradesh | LIVE https://t.co/8yE5IzVi0y

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 22, 2022

Faculties within the nationwide capital reopened for Courses 9 to 12 on February 7, whereas nursery to Class 8 reopened on February 14 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.