New Delhi:
Hitting back at his detractors who had accused him of rushing an education bill, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday invoked Rajiv Gandhi and said the former Prime Minister had desired that the task of imparting quality education should be achieved in a few months.
"If people say that we are in a hurry, then I would like to state that Rajivji had said it in 1985 that this should be achieved in a few months," Sibal said at a function to mark 25 years of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV), an initiative taken by the late Rajiv Gandhi.
Sibal's remarks could be seen as an apparent rebuff to detractors like K Keshav Rao, who had attacked the policies of the HRD Ministry in a debate in the Rajya Sabha that forced the government to defer the Education Tribunal Bill.