NEW DELHI: During a visit to a government school in Maharashtra, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke alleged that authorities had brought in students from other institutions to cover up the shortcomings and present a favourable picture. Dipke also alleged that school brought new shiny steel plates for midday meals before the visit.
Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) founding president, Abhijeet Dipke, has alleged that authorities in Maharashtra’s Latur district brought students from another school and presented them as pupils of a Zilla Parishad primary school during his visit on Thursday (August 20). Dipke’s visit was a part of the outfit’s nationwide campaign ‘School Thik Karo’ aimed at highlighting the condition of government schools.
Dipke alleged that “dummy students were brought in”, to conceal shortcomings in the school and create a favourable picture for visitors and the media. He also claimed that he noticed newly-supplied steel plates being used by students for their midday meals. He claimed that he was told that the plates were brought before his planned visit to the school.
“Authorities in Maharashtra are using kids as dummy students during our social audit to cover up the government’s failures. Why do you have to stoop so low? Why not just improve the schools?” Dipke wrote while posting a video on his X, where he was seen sitting with students on the floor of the school.
Dipke was visiting a government school in Ausa taluka of Latur district as part of the CJP’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, a nationwide drive aimed at highlighting deficiencies in government schools and demanding better infrastructure and educational facilities. The campaign was launched on August 15 after the CJP’s protests in New Delhi culminated in the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over paper leaks and exam-related irregularities.
In a video shared by Dipke on X, he is seen asking students, seated in the Zilla Parishad primary school in Ausa taluka, where their school bags were.
The students replied that their bags were at their respective schools, indicating that the school they were seated in was not their own.
