Patna,(BiharTimes): The president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, Kanhaiya Kumar, said that when he met chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday he called for the implementation of the recommendations of the Common School System.

The Nitish Kumar government, it must be recalled, had constituted a commission under the chairmanship of retired foreign secretary, Muchkund Dubey, a few years back. The Commission had already submitted its report.

Kanhaiya said that the chief minister told him that he state government can do little as it has sent the report to the Centre, which can take a decision on this issue.

Kanhaiya then went on to ask prime minister Narendra Modi to immediately implement the Common School System. If all the citizens have the same right, they have equal votes, why not their children get equal schooling.

Coming down heavily on the pattern of competitive exams he asked as to how can one expect different runners to reach the finishing line at the same time when they start from different points? How can a student of Pataliputra High School and DPS be expected to performed in the same way in the UPSC.

He urged the middle class parents not to be hoodwinked by the propaganda of the posh schools that they teach horse-racing and swimming. Schools are meant to teach. Youths living in the ‘diara’ (riverine belt) learn these arts much earlier without going to any such expensive schools.

Kanhaiya charged the BJP government with systematically destroying education, especially History, as their own history is very bad.

“Thescholarship of M Phil and PhD students have been stopped. We are fighting for it. But when we make our genuine demands we are slapped with sedition cases,” he thundered amiddist big applaud.
In his 80-minutes long speech in the over-flowing S K Memorial Hall on scorching Saturday afternoon he touched all the issues.

Singling out a section of media for working overtime for the BJP and highlighting ‘chat-pati khabrein’ (spicy news items) he denied all the reports about flying in aeroplane when he is the son of ‘an anganwadi sevika’ earning only Rs 3,000 per month.

“The safai karacmcharis of Mumbai have collected money to pay Rs 10,000 fine imposed on me. They have also taken up the responsibility of fighting my case,” he said.