Met L-G, sought help in regularisation of guest teachers: Delhi BJP chief

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari Friday said that he has met Lt Governor Anil Baijal and sought his help in regularisation of services of guest teachers in government schools of the city.

He also accused the Arvind Kejriwal government of playing politics over the issue.

Thousands of guest teachers of Delhi government schools whose contract ended last month, have been agitating over their demand for regularisation of their services.

With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the ruling AAP and BJP are wrangling over the issue of guest teachers.

On Thursday, Tiwari met the guest teachers demonstrating near the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and said their problems could be solved by a method adopted by the BJP government in Haryana to regularise its guest teachers.

Sisodia, in reply to Tiwari's allegation, said on Friday the Delhi government has already passed the policy the Delhi BJP chief was suggesting and challenged him to get it cleared by the Lt Governor to help the guest teachers.

An unimpressed Tiwari however charged, "The Kejriwal government is playing politics over the issue of regularising of 22,000 guest teachers who have been rendered jobless due to its fault."