BangaloreLeader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah demanded that Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh be dropped from the cabinet and called him “anti-education”.
He tweeted about the distribution of shoes and socks to government school children and said, “We had to wake up Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai that he should be thrown out of his cabinet. Anti-conscience Education Minister B.C. The socks of poor school children, there is no humanity. Nagesh is making a mistake or two?”
Siddaramaiah condemned State government “First remove this anti-education person from the cabinet”.
Due to non-allocation of funds in the current year’s budget, the Education Department has abandoned the scheme of cycles, shoes and socks. Congress leaders criticized the government’s decision.
Subsequently, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai approved a proposal of Rs 132 crore for the distribution of shoes and socks to school children following the Education Minister’s statement and the Congress party’s criticism.