New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia may not accompany First Lady Melania Trump to a government school during her brief visit to the national capital in the coming week.
According to Delhi government sources, names of Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia have been dropped from the school event which is to be attended by Melania Trump Tuesday, newsagaency ANI reported.
Sources had earlier claimed that both were to attend the programme since the school comes under the Delhi government. They were said to give a tour of the school to Melania and brief her about their public education experiment that focuses on mindfulness exercises and good moral lessons.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that it was the centre’s plan to drop the two from the VVIP event.
AAP leader Preeti Sharma Menon tweeted: “There is no match for the pettiness of @narendramodi. You may not invite @ArvindKejriwal @msisodia but their work speaks for them.”
On Tuesday, Melania Trump is scheduled to attend a ‘happiness class’, one of the flagship programmes of the Delhi government in the education sector that aims to help children relieve stress, meditate and discuss things that are troubling them. She is expected to spend around an hour at the state government school.
The name of the school where the First Lady might go has not been disclosed, but some Delhi government schools are being spruced up and decorated.
Melania Trump’s solo visit will take place simultaneously when US President Donald Trump will be meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both Donald Trump and Melania Trump will fly to India on Monday (February 24) and will be here for two days.
Donald Trump’s first stop is Ahmedabad where a major public event awaits him – ‘Namaste Trump’ – followed by bilateral talks in New Delhi.
On the morning of February 25, Trump and the First Lady would be accorded a ceremonial welcome at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
From there, they would go to Rajghat to pay homage at the ‘samadhi’ of Mahatma Gandhi. It would be followed by restricted and delegation-level talks between Trump and Modi at Hyderabad House.