CJP leader urges Maharashtra education minister to resign over poor school conditions

Abhijeet Dipke, the convenor of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), on Thursday, August 20, called for the resignation of Maharashtra's School Education Minister, Dada Bhuse, citing the pitiable condition of government schools across the state. Speaking to reporters in Latur after visiting a school, Dipke asserted that students are being denied basic facilities and claimed the amenities for ministers' pets surpass those for children in public schools.

Dipke's demand came as part of the CJP's recently launched "School Thik Karo" campaign to improve government schools. He had visited a Zilla Parishad school at Ujani village in the district's Ausa tehsil earlier in the day. Following the visit, he stated that elected representatives and ministers must be held accountable for the persistent lack of proper classrooms, benches, toilets, and safe access roads in many schools.

He alleged that in some schools, students are treated "worse than animals." "It is a question of students' lives. When political leaders are not doing anything for students, why should people vote for them? Do people vote for them so that they can only travel in helicopters? People should see in what conditions their...