Aaditya Thackeray slams BJP over pro-CAA campaigns at schools, says 'mustn’t be tolerated'

Questioning  BJP’s move to conduct pro-CAA campaign in schools, Maharashtra’s newly appointed Minister of Environment, Tourism and Protocol, Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday took to Twitter to slam party. His tweet comes a day after BJP leaders visited a school in Mumbai's Matunga area as a part of 'Support CAA' campaign to spread awareness about act. Taking to microblogging site, Thackeray called  campaign 'ridiculous' and said that politicisation of schools will t be tolerated.

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BJP campaign's in schools

According to reports, an Ahmedabad-based private school asked its students, between class V and X, to write a mess congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 on Tuesday. "Congratulations. I, a citizen of India, congratulate hourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act). I and my family support this act," postcard read.

However, angry parents on Wednesday protested against school's move. As a result, school manment had to apologise to parents and said that this exercise was a misunderstanding. school returned postcards to parents but y tore m up. As per reports, This happened at Little Star School, an all-girls school in Kankaria area of Ahmedabad. parents said that teachers had written mess on blackboard during ir classes and asked m to copy it down on postcards and address it to PMO, South Block Secretariat building, Raisina Hills, New Delhi along with ir residence address.

In a similar incident, BJP conducted a pro-CAA campaign in a school in Mumbai.  y said, "Anti-CAA protestors are traitors and we must protect our country from m." y also distributed similar congratulatory postcards which would later be sent to PMO.

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