Apr 10, 2025 03:30 PM IST
AAP MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra’s apology got here within the wake of robust backlash from the educating neighborhood. Authorities schoolteachers had introduced statewide protests on April 11, together with the burning of effigies of chief minister Bhagwant Mann, training minister Harjot Bains, and Jouramajra himself.
Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra on Thursday publicly apologised to lecturers throughout Punjab for his latest behaviour at a authorities faculty in Samana, the place he had expressed anger over the alleged mismanagement throughout a faculty occasion.
AAP MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra misplaced his cool over what he termed “utter mismanagement” throughout an occasion was organised to inaugurate new infrastructure below the Punjab authorities’s Sikhiya Kranti initiative, at Flight Lt Mohit Garg Authorities Senior Secondary College in Samana. (HT Photograph)
Acknowledging his mistake, Jouramajra mentioned, “If I hurt anyone’s sentiments, I apologise to the teachers. They are our Gurus, we learn everything from them. They deserve respect, and I sincerely apologise to every teacher in the state.”
He additional clarified that he doesn’t have any private animosity with any instructor.
Academics had threatened to burn effigies
The apology got here within the wake of robust backlash from the educating neighborhood. Authorities schoolteachers had introduced statewide protests on April 11, together with the burning of effigies of chief minister Bhagwant Mann, training minister Harjot Bains, and Jouramajra himself.
The controversy stems from an incident on Monday when Jouramajra attended a operate on the Flight Lt Mohit Garg Authorities Senior Secondary College in Samana because the chief visitor. The occasion was organised to inaugurate new infrastructure below the Punjab authorities’s Sikhiya Kranti initiative.
Throughout the programme, Jouramajra misplaced his cool over what he termed “utter mismanagement.” Addressing the gathering, he mentioned, “Is this a planned programme? This is a completely failed programme. Why were parents not informed? Teachers have no command over their students who are roaming freely. Is this even a school? I don’t know how you teach them if you don’t have control over the students.” He additionally mentioned he would file a written grievance with the chief minister and the training minister concerning the difficulty.
Reacting to the apology, Hardeep Toderpur, senior chief of the Democratic Academics Entrance, mentioned, “We accept his apology. It is good that he realised his mistake. We urge him to be more careful in the future and refrain from such behaviour with teachers.”
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