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VIRAL VIDEO: Uttarakhand education minister insults teacher, but gets his own maths wrong

Minister Arvind Pandey asked the teacher simple equation from Chemistry, asking her what would be the answer for "minus plus minus." When the teacher answered minus, the minister got up to ask what would be the answer to the same question in Mathematics and ruled, "Minus plus minus is plus."

2 min readNew DelhiSep 15, 2017 08:13 PM IST First published on: Sep 15, 2017 at 08:13 PM IST
The 45-year-old minister has been visiting government schools recently to conduct a surprise inspection. (Source: Youtube)

A video of Uttarakhand Minister asking “basic” questions of mathematics is going viral, but for all the wrong reasons. The video footage shot during a school inspection shows the state education minister asking some basic questions to a female teacher in front of a whole class. However, the answers given by the minister defied maths. The teacher was pulled up for “teaching from a guide book” and following a government prescribed book.

Minister Arvind Pandey asked the teacher simple equation from Chemistry, asking her what would be the answer for “minus plus minus.” When the teacher answered minus, the minister got up to ask what would be the answer to the same question in Mathematics and ruled, “Minus plus minus is plus.”

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