Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma remarks: Delhi more like municipal corporation, Can't compare to Assam

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• Aug 26, 2022 | Poonam Nath

Himanta invited Kejriwal to visit Assam and see for himself the government-run education and healthcare facilities.

Digital Desk: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday that the northeastern state and Delhi cannot be compared because the national capital is more like a municipal corporation.

He invited his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal to visit Assam and see for himself government-run education and healthcare facilities, while also stating that he would visit similar facilities in Delhi during his frequent visits.

Sarma was responding to Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders' claims that Delhi has better education and healthcare than Assam.

Delhi is only a state in name. According to a senior BJP leader, it is more like a municipal corporation.

He stated that if Assam was to be compared to any other state, it should be Punjab, Jharkhand, or Chhattisgarh.

Their mohalla clinics have caught my eye. What is there to see in those clinics, though, after experiencing the amenities of our Gauhati Medical College and Hospital? said Sarma.

The chief minister had just finished examining the development of Swahid Smarak and Park's work when he spoke to the media.

He said that Assam had almost 2.5 lakh teachers working in 60,000–70,000 state government schools, compared to Delhi's 1,200 schools with 6,000–7,000 instructors.

I would have gone to the schools daily if there were only 1,200 of them. According to Sarma, everyday meals would have included fish for breakfast, beef for lunch, and pulao for dinner, every day.

Sarma responded to Kejriwal's request that he visit Delhi to inspect the medical and educational facilities by saying, "He doesn't have to tweet to beg me to go there."

He has asked me to go to the clinics and schools there, so I will do it on one of my trips. He is welcome to visit and see our amenities.

On Thursday, the two chief ministers got into an argument on the microblogging website, with Kejriwal accusing the Assam administration of closing schools when more needed to be opened nationwide.

Sarma had responded to it by asserting that the government had constructed new schools as well as provincialized or taken over private institutions since 2013.

Sarma responded to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) criticism of the state government's decision to start teaching math and science in English in Class 3 by saying that the group has a democratic right to object to any decision made by the government as long as the protest is nonviolent.

The student branch of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is called ABVP (RSS).

Sarma continued, "We (the BJP) share some characteristics with the ABVP, such as our unwavering devotion to Bharat Mata, but we also differ from them."