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New Delhi: Unacademy which runs online and offline classes fires its employee. Teacher Karan Sangwan, who urged students to vote for an educated candidate, has been sacked by Unacademy and EdTech, a firm that runs teacher platforms, says the classroom is not the place to share personal views. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has also reacted to the issue and wanted to know whether asking educated people to vote is a crime.
Roman Saini, co-founder of Unacademy, says that Sangwan has violated the contract, so the company had to leave him. Sangwan has started his YouTube channel and has announced that he will post a detailed post on August 19 regarding the entire controversy. Sangwan said, “For the past few days, a video is going viral due to which I am in controversy and due to this controversy many of my students preparing for judicial service examinations are facing problems. Along with them I have to also face consequences”.
In the controversial video Sangwan is referring to, he is appealing to the students to vote for educated candidates next time. Saini has written in this regard in a post on ‘X’ that ‘Unacademy’ is an education platform dedicated to imparting quality education. Saini said, “To do this, we have a strict ‘code of conduct’ for all teachers, which aims to ensure that our students receive knowledge without any discrimination.
Everything we do, we do with our students at the center. Classroom is not a place where you share personal views as it may affect students negatively. In the present situation, we were forced to leave Karan Sangwan as he violated the code of conduct.
In a post on X, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “Is it a crime to appeal to educated people to vote? If someone is uneducated, I personally respect him. But people’s representatives cannot be uneducated. This is the era of science and technology. Uneducated people’s representatives can never build a modern India of the 21st century.
Y Sathish Reddy, chairman of Telangana State Renewable Energy Development Corporation, also posted on X, “With all due respect to #Unacademy, it is highly inappropriate to suspend a teacher who simply requested not to vote for illiterates. They are liable for a proper explanation! #UninstallUnacademy.”
