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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday said the Delhi Directorate of Education (DoE) had “invited” the teachers and principals of schools to the swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, saying the educators had been the architect of Delhi’s transformation in the past five years.

This has, however, come in for sharp criticism from the BJP, which has termed it as as a “Tughlaqi farmaan”.

While the circular of the DoE says the Head of Schools are “invited” to attend the ceremony along with 20 others, including vice principals, Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum Coordinators, Happiness Coordinators and Teacher Development Coordinators.

However, BJP leader and newly elected MLA Vijender Gupta called it a “Tughlaqi farmaan” and on Saturday wrote a letter to Kejriwal, asking him to roll back the order.

Gupta, in the letter, asked Kejriwal to withdraw the “Tughlaqi farmaan” to the teachers and officials, saying it was a “sheer misuse of government machinery to meet political ends”.