‘Sowing poison of discrimination in minds of innocent children’: Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav condemn Muzaffarnagar school incident

“This is the same kerosene spread by the BJP which has set every corner of India on fire. Children are the future of India – do not hate them, we all have to teach love together,” Rahul wrote in a post on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.

According to officials, the incident took place at a private school in Khubbapur village on Thursday. Both the police and the education authorities are exploring action against the teacher, Tripta Tyagi, as well as Neha Public School, which she owns and where the incident occurred.

BJP leader Varun Gandhi condemned the incident stating that the “expectations from a teacher are high beyond dirty politics”.

Reacting to the incident, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said “hate is the biggest enemy of progress”. “What kind of classroom, what kind of society do we want to give to our future generations?Where there is talk of technology to go to the moon or things that build a boundary wall of hatred,” she posted on X. “We have to unite and speak against this hatred – for our country, for progress, for the coming generations.”

The Samajwadi Party blamed the “politics of hate” of the BJP and RSS for the incident. In a post, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav demanded that the teacher be sacked immediately, calling her a “blot on teacher society”. “In a viral video from Muzaffarnagar, a teacher is getting a student beaten up by other students. She is guilty of a double crime in that on one hand she is asking other students to beat the child and on the other she is making them violent. The BJP government should show this video in the G20 meeting and explain how justified is its politics of hate,” Yadav said in his post.

Calling the incident a “grotesque display of prejudice”, the Trinamool Congress linked it to what they claimed was the “venomous touch of the BJP’s divisive politics” that was “setting India ablaze”.

RLD MLA Jayant Singh, who had visited the victim and his family in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday morning, said the incident was a “painful warning of how deep rooted religious divides can tiger violence against the marginalised, minority communities”.

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