CHENNAI: K Annamalai, former IPS officer and founder of ‘We The Leaders’, on Saturday denounced Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam functionaries after a video surfaced showing them filming social media reels inside a govt school classroom near Uthiramerur in Kancheepuram district.The controversy erupted after more than 20 cadres of the ruling party allegedly entered the school premises to hang a photograph of chief minister C Joseph Vijay on the classroom wall.The former BJP state president took sharp aim at the ruling party functionaries for disrupting educational decorum. He pointed out that after five years of governance, a significant number of govt schools across the state continue to grapple with severe infrastructural deficits, lacking even proper building structures.School education minister Rajmohan faces an uphill task of restoring the lost standards and prestige of these institutions, actions by the TVK cadres are being viewed as further detrimental to an already fragile public schooling system, said Annamalai.Condemning such an act and the high-handedness, Annamalai stated that being part of the ruling party does “not grant anyone the license to enter active classrooms and disturb students”. Expressing hope that cm himself would not accept such indiscipline from his ranks, Annamalai appealed to the cm and the school education minister to strictly instruct party cadres to refrain from repeating such incidents.
