lucknow a day after aam aadmi party announced that it would contest the 2022 assembly elections in up a declaration which prompted the the bjp government in the state to accuse aap of daydreaming and challenged it to a debate on educational reforms delhi deputy cm manish sisodia accepted the challenge and said that he would visit lucknow on december 22meanwhile as chief minister yogi adityanath also attacked the aap government during an event in prayagraj on wednesday accusing it of having failed in managing delhi especially during the covid19 pandemic and upheld up as a significantly better managed state delhi cm arvind kejriwal retaliated on twitteryogi ji you only seem to be obsessed with the delhi government at all times discussions on our excellent covid19 management are taking place in every corner of up unlike you we do not carry out fake covid19 tests to debate other issues manish will be going to lucknow on december 22 on the invitation of your minister kejriwal tweeted referring to a recent news article about almost 1000 fake covid19 test registrations in bareillyon wednesday sisodia asked the up government to provide the location and time for the debate he said i also accept the invitation to see the work done in government schools of uttar pradesh i will visit lucknow on december 22 and would like to know who will debate with me on behalf of the up governmenthe said that many up ministers had reacted sharply to kejriwals announcement to contest elections in up adding that it was clear that aap had hit the right target up government praising its schools will not improve their condition schools improve when the government takes concrete steps like increasing the education budget training and empowering its teachers and principals and by providing basic facilities in schools the plight of up government schools is well known he saidup government spokesperson sidharth nath singh who had addressed a press conference on aaps announcement on tuesday said that he was willing to debate with anyone but first kejriwal must answer the questions that he had raised on tuesdayaap has a habit of spit and run but i will not allow them to run they are comparing a population of a few crores with 24 crore in up they have 1000 schools and we have 158 lakh schools kejriwal wants to contest elections in up but he has insulted purvanchalis let him first answer the questions we have asked and only then can there be a debate he said