West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar Tuesday urged the TMC government within the state to rethink its stand of not implementing the new National Education Policy, which he called a “milestone within the field of education”.
The new National Education Policy should be enforced wholeheartedly by everyone, Dhankhar told newsmen here.
Dhankhar’s discuss the NEP come each day after West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said it undermines the country’s federal structure and can not be implemented within the state any time soon.
Chatterjee had attended the ‘Governors Conference on the Role of NEP in Transforming Higher Education’ on Monday which was addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The new National Education Policy 2020 may be a milestone. All folks should wholeheartedly enforce the new policy for the betterment of the education sector of our country. it’ll put innovation and research on a really high pedestal. i’m sure the state govt will rethink about it instead of taking the stand ‘we don’t agree’,” Dhankhar said.
Dhankhar has often been hostile with the TMC government within the state since he took over as governor in July 2019 on a spread of issues. The TMC irked together with his critical stand had even called him an agent of the BJP.
On Tuesday the governor took a dig at the TMC government over the Police Day celebrations within the state and urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to “unshackle the force from the political chains” and refrain from converting the police personnel to frontline political workers.
Dhankhar, while hitting out at the government over “worsening law and order”, expressed concern over ongoing “political violence and killings” within the state.
“Police Day Reflections Why fear governance @MamataOfficial without police political support! Why not gift freedom thereto to act as per law! Why not unshackle its political chains @MamataOfficial. Why make police battlefront political workers! Why quid pro quo stance!” Dhankhar said during a tweet.
His tweet came just hours after Banerjee heaped praise on the state’s police for his or her “relentless” fight against the COVID-19 pandemic over the past six months and urged them to “carry on the great work without paying heed to any adverse remark”.
Dhankhar said at the news conference that he’s worried over police being politicised in Bengal which successively is resulting in anarch”.
“I would urge the government for the sake of democracy to not turn the police personnel into political workers. Police personnel are expected to be neutral, but unfortunately, they’re being became political workers,” he said.
