The AAP-led Punjab authorities’s try at showcasing the state’s authorities colleges in a optimistic gentle seemingly backfired on Tuesday, after the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) identified spelling errors in classroom charts in a video shared by schooling minister Harjot Singh Bains.
Sharing a picture of the classroom on X, the SAD alleged that the errors mirrored the poor state of presidency colleges in Punjab and linked them to a broader decline in pupil enrolment.
“If that is what’s being taught in Govt colleges in Punjab, no marvel over 6 lakh college students have dropped out from Govt colleges since 2022,” the social gathering stated, reacting to a clip that confirmed phrases incorrectly spelt as “vegitables” and “expensive” (referring to the animal deer) in a classroom wall.
Taking a dig at Punjab Schooling Minister Harjot Singh Bains, the SAD stated he was displaying “clear indicators of mind fog” and sarcastically steered that he ought to strive consuming the correct “VEGITABLES”.
The social gathering additionally took purpose at AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Arvind Kejriwal, asking them to touch upon what it referred to as the “Sikhiya Rip-off” in Punjab.
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Row started over Fazilka faculty
The most recent assault got here days after a confrontation between Bains and writer Anand Ranganathan over the situation of a authorities faculty in Fazilka.
Ranganathan had shared footage of a college the place college students have been allegedly compelled to check within the open after its constructing was broken. He claimed the AAP authorities had promised to construct a brand new faculty inside six months and questioned the place the promised constructing was.
“Surprising state of a college in Fazilka, Punjab, with kids braving the weather and compelled to check within the open. The AAP govt had promised the kids a brand new faculty constructing inside 6 months. Immediately, that deadline expired,” Ranganathan posted on X.
Bains hit again, saying the federal government was dedicated to enhancing schooling and that Punjab had risen from rank 27 to rank one in schooling, citing a NITI Aayog report.
He stated the college in query, GPS Basti Hazoor Singh in Fazilka, had been inspected following the 2025 floods. Three rooms have been discovered unsafe and declared unfit on December 8, 2025, after which orders have been issued for his or her dismantling.
In line with Bains, Class 4 and 5 college students have been shifted to a different faculty inside 1 km, whereas pre-primary to Class 3 college students have been finding out safely in two school rooms that remained match to be used.
He additionally stated ₹28.65 lakh had been sanctioned for 3 new school rooms and that development work had began this week. The college is amongst 500 authorities colleges being utterly redeveloped, he added.
Bains additional stated Punjab suffered its worst-ever floods in 2025, damaging greater than 7,000 colleges, and alleged that the Centre had not offered monetary help regardless of repeated requests.
SAD factors at spelling errors
After Bains shared photographs of the college’s current school rooms and the rooms that had been dismantled, the spelling errors on academic charts seen on the classroom partitions drew consideration on-line.
The SAD subsequently shared a zoomed-in picture displaying the phrases “vegitables” and “expensive” and used the errors to focus on the state authorities’s schooling file.
The social gathering additionally alleged that greater than six lakh college students had left authorities colleges in Punjab since 2022, however didn’t present particulars supporting the declare in its publish.
