LUCKNOW: A day after UP police arrested 26 persons allegedly involved in leakage of Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) question paper, BJP MP from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi on Monday upped the ante against his own party government in UP saying that crackdown on “smaller fish” won’t yield much desired result.
Gandhi, who has been relaying his subtle indignation with the BJP dispensation for the past few months, demanded action against the “education mafia” and the owners of educational institutions who, he said, wielded “significant political patronage”.
“Inpar karyawahi kab hogi… (When will action be taken against them),” he questioned. Varun’s hardened stance vis-a-vis TET exam paper leak came a day after opposition parties fired pointed salvos at the ruling BJP over, what it said, smacked of an attempt to play with the future of lakhs of youth.
Not surprisingly, Gandhi’s remark highlighting “political patronage” to the education mafia left the BJP ranks in a state of chagrin. “This was true in the previous state governments. CM Yogi Adityanath too has issued strict directions of slapping NSA and gangster act on those found guilty besides announcing that the test would be conducted within a months’ time. There is no point in getting worked up and raising an issue for which the state government is in the process of addressing and taking requisite steps,” said a senior BJP leader in UP.
Varun’s comment, nevertheless, marked his repeated dissentious positioning with the party brass days after he and his mother Menaka Gandhi, a former Union minister and Sultanpur MP, were dropped from the national executive, a key decision making body in the BJP. Menaka, though, shared the dais with PM Narendra Modi during the inauguration of Purvanchal expressway — a development that sought to silence the BJP detractors.
The BJP MP has already been at odds with the Centre over farmer stir against the three farm laws. When Modi on November 19 announced his government decision to annul the three laws, Varun dashed off a letter to the PM voicing farmers demand of a legal guarantee for the MSP besides sacking of junior home minister Ajay Mishra whose son Ashish is an accused in the Lakhimpur violence in which eight persons including four farmers were killed. “Many leaders sitting in senior positions have given provocative statements against our agitating farmers,” he wrote in the letter, dated November 20.
Experts said that by raising the issue of TET question paper leak, Varun sought to strike the right chord with the youth which had seemingly supported him in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. This was true for the farmers, who happen to be in majority in and around his parliamentary constituency.
Gandhi, who has been relaying his subtle indignation with the BJP dispensation for the past few months, demanded action against the “education mafia” and the owners of educational institutions who, he said, wielded “significant political patronage”.
“Inpar karyawahi kab hogi… (When will action be taken against them),” he questioned. Varun’s hardened stance vis-a-vis TET exam paper leak came a day after opposition parties fired pointed salvos at the ruling BJP over, what it said, smacked of an attempt to play with the future of lakhs of youth.
Not surprisingly, Gandhi’s remark highlighting “political patronage” to the education mafia left the BJP ranks in a state of chagrin. “This was true in the previous state governments. CM Yogi Adityanath too has issued strict directions of slapping NSA and gangster act on those found guilty besides announcing that the test would be conducted within a months’ time. There is no point in getting worked up and raising an issue for which the state government is in the process of addressing and taking requisite steps,” said a senior BJP leader in UP.
Varun’s comment, nevertheless, marked his repeated dissentious positioning with the party brass days after he and his mother Menaka Gandhi, a former Union minister and Sultanpur MP, were dropped from the national executive, a key decision making body in the BJP. Menaka, though, shared the dais with PM Narendra Modi during the inauguration of Purvanchal expressway — a development that sought to silence the BJP detractors.
The BJP MP has already been at odds with the Centre over farmer stir against the three farm laws. When Modi on November 19 announced his government decision to annul the three laws, Varun dashed off a letter to the PM voicing farmers demand of a legal guarantee for the MSP besides sacking of junior home minister Ajay Mishra whose son Ashish is an accused in the Lakhimpur violence in which eight persons including four farmers were killed. “Many leaders sitting in senior positions have given provocative statements against our agitating farmers,” he wrote in the letter, dated November 20.
Experts said that by raising the issue of TET question paper leak, Varun sought to strike the right chord with the youth which had seemingly supported him in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. This was true for the farmers, who happen to be in majority in and around his parliamentary constituency.
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