New Delhi: Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday joined Delhi government guest teachers who are holding a protest over their demand for permanent jobs outside the residence of CM Arvind Kejriwal. 

Sidhu's counterstroke is a response to Kejriwal's support to the protest of contractual teachers in Punjab's Mohali, last week. The teachers were staging their protest for several days at a water tank near Sohana gurdwara.

At the protest, Sidhu said, "An ounce of performance is worth a pound of preachment, practice what you preach Arvind Kejriwal Ji … Delhi School Teachers say they are treated as bonded labour and daily wagers, paid per day, no payment for holidays or weekends, No guarantee of contract, removed without notice !"

He said that in the 2015 manifesto, Kejriwal promised 8 lakh new jobs and 20 new colleges in Delhi. Sidhu asked, "Where are the jobs and colleges? You have given only 440 Jobs in Delhi. On the contrary of your failed guarantees, unemployment rate of Delhi has increased by almost 5 times in last 5 years".

Sidhu further claimed that in 2015 there were 12,515 job vacancies for teachers in Delhi but in 2021 there are 19,907 job vacancies of teachers in Delhi. While AAP government was filing up vacant posts through guest lecturers.

An ounce of performance is worth a pound of preachment, practice what you preach @ArvindKejriwal Ji … Delhi School Teachers say they are treated as bonded labour & daily wagers, paid per day, no payment for holidays or weekends, No guarantee of contract, removed without notice ! pic.twitter.com/W4NieQbaMF

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) December 5, 2021