“Some leaders are trying to enroll their kids in private schools on the pretext that this was being done for them by their relatives,” he said. [break]
Speaking at an interaction organized by the Association of Revolutionary Journalists on Monday in Palpa, Sharma said contractors and the education mafia will be ready to enroll the children of the party´s leaders but that should not be allowed. Such children also should go to public schools like the children of ordinary people, he said.
“If they don´t oblige we will ask the party to take strong action against them,” he informed.
Sharma said that Moaist leaders will not be allowed to invest in private schools and colleges either and in case secret investments are made, they will expose them. He said their party has been discussing this issue as an agenda in itself. It was important that the Maoist party internalize this policy so that it would be easy to introduce and implement the same in other parties as well.
Sharma stressed that their student union will not let attempts to weaken public education and privatize it completely succeed. “If we follow Tribhuwan University´s educational calendar and strictly adhere to the dates for admissions, classes and examinations, it will be very easy to implement this plan,” he said.
Talking separately to Republica, Sharma said the student union had already submitted a memo to party Chairman Prachanda, who has promised to raise it as an agenda item at the party meeting.
Some leaders have already placed their children in public schools while those with children still in boarding schools are looking for suitable public schools, Sharma claimed.
"We can only exert moral pressure," he added.
In a different context, Sharma said that the student union is acting like a ´super glue´ to prevent the parent party from splitting.
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