BJP's Malviya slams CM Mamata Banerjee; makes scathing claims on state of education in WB

Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi's virtual addresses at the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, National in-charge of BJP's Information & Technology department Amit Malviya hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the current situation of education in the state. Taking to Twitter, Amit Malviya said that 90 per cent elementary schools in the state do not have a table-desk, 30 per cent don't have sufficient classrooms, 10 per cent have no electricity connection.  

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BJP's Amit Malviya slams CM Mamata Banerjee

Highlighting that there are only 13 colleges per lakh students in West Bengal, he said, Mamata Banerjee is playing "havoc with future of our children". Asserting that the state of higher education is no better in West Bengal, Amit Malviya said that even a top institution like Jadavpur University is failing to attract students. He said, "40 per cent seats of Jadavpur University are lying vacant even after multiple rounds of counselling because of poor prospects."

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West Bengal polls 

The West Bengal assembly with 294 seats will go to polls in April-May 2021, Trinamool holds 222 seats. However, BJP has made major inroads in the state in the Lok Sabha elections winning 18 seats and establishing itself as the major opposition force in the state. Recently TMC trumped BJP in all 3 bypolls but the BJP is using its booth-level strategy, has regularly dispatched its top leaders including Amit Shah and JP Nadda in the state for winning the upcoming elections. PM Modi's address at Visva-Bharati is likely to entail the Prime Minister's official entry into the poll fray, in a state that the BJP regards as its final frontier and against a tremendously strong and popular regional power in Mamata Banerjee.

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