Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar Rebukes Woman Over Question About Delay in Teachers Recruitment

A video of Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar rebuking a woman over her question about delay in teachers recruitment went viral on social media on Tuesday.

A video of Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar rebuking a woman over her question about the delay in teachers' recruitment went viral on social media on Tuesday. The incident took place in Beed city on Monday when the minister was meeting some candidates for school teachers' posts.

Minister's Reaction

Kesarkar, who belongs to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, later said in his reaction that the woman was not following discipline during the interaction. In the video, the woman, apparently aspiring to be a government school teacher, is heard asking the minister about the delay in the recruitment process and saying they are tired of waiting. There was no advertisement about recruitment, she said, while the minister replied that every district has been instructed to issue an advertisement.

The woman interrupted him and asked when the advertisement will be issued. Kesarkar was then heard telling her that if she continued to behave in an indisciplined way, she cannot get a government job.

"I am as strict as I am affectionate. For me, my students are important. You are worried about the job and for that I made available 30,000 jobs but if you teach the same indiscipline to students, then I won't accept it," the minister said.

As she continued to speak, the minister warned that he will seek out her name and ask the officials to disqualify her.

NCP MP Criticizes Minister

NCP MP Supriya Sule criticized Kesarkar over the incident and said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde should rein in his ministers. "Kesarkar should apologize to the woman," she said in a social media post.

The incident has sparked a debate on social media, with many people criticizing the minister's behavior. Some have accused him of being arrogant and disrespectful, while others have defended him, saying that he was right to put the woman in her place. It remains to be seen whether the incident will have any impact on Kesarkar's political career.