Send your kid to school or be locked up in jail without food, water: UP minister
Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday said parents who don’t send their children to schools will be locked up in police stations for five days without food and water. In a video that went viral on the social media, the minister of the Department of Backward Classes Welfare and the Department of Disabled People Development is reportedly seen speaking vociferously against those who did to send their kids to schools. “I am going to enact a law of my choice. If wards of poor do not go to school, their parents will be forced to sit in police stations for five days. They will neither be given food nor water,” Rajbhar said at Rasda area while addressing a party gathering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Q8k2FoGckJA After the video stroked a controversy, the minister stood firm on his statement and said, “I stick to my statement. What wrong am I saying if I am threatening to send them to jail? Why are they not sending children to schools when the government was providing all education facilities?” -PTC News
