jalandhar having faced severe criticism from opposition for remaining silent on punjab topping national achievement survey nas 2021 education minister meet hayer on saturday attracted sharper criticism for his reported statement that punjabs top rank in the rating was based on fudged figures having already questioned the aap governments silence on the states achievement several punjabi netizens have now expressed shock at hayers comment opposition leaders also used strong adjectives to describe the ministers remarks with their common refrain being that he made the comments in desperation to appease his partys supremo as the arvind kejriwalheaded delhi government had lagged behind punjab even as aap had been propounding the delhi model during the punjab elections punjab congress president amrinder singh raja warring tweeted colonial slave mindset shocking education minister meethayer slavishly dismissed nas recognising punjab education superiority over delhi fanatic slavish attitude of seeing everything bad in punjab is selfdefeatist trying to be more loyal than their colonial master arvindkejriwalcongress leader of opposition partap singh bajwa called meets conduct shameless this puts a question mark on the efforts of teachers officials etc just to please his hayers masters in delhi these people will even throw punjab under the bus just to prove their loyalty to kejriwal bjp leader manjinder singh sirsa posted a video statement in which he even alleged the minister will now bring education in punjab down so that they could show punjab was not better than delhi how low would aappunjab leaders fall to please their delhi boss disgusting is their obsession of implementing a failed delhi model in punjab he tweetedsad president sukhbir singh basal on the other hand questioned the punjab cms silence on nas results i am shocked that while bhagwantmann is not letting any opportunity go to joyfully squander the money of resourcestarved punjab on issuing nationwide advts to promote arvindkejriwal and his delhi model he refuses to acknowledge the achievements of his own statesukhbir also asked mann to celebrate punjabs achievement of securing the top rank in nas congress mla sukhpal singh khaira described hayers statement on nas as a matter of great shame instead of appreciating punjab teachers and students for making our state proud for topping in terms of school education hes humiliating and demoralising them this shameful statement of em is only to justify their failed delhi model he said khaira added what a white lie by meethayer em that nas report is fudged report is based on cbse results of students competence performance its not an assessment by any agency this foolish statement of em meethayer amounts to doubting the results of cbse he definitely needs to apologizeon the other hand punjabi netizens asked hayer to explain how could figures be fudged in a test conducted by the central bureau of school education cbseat the same time some aap supporters also took the line which hayer had taken and claimed that the nas did not reflect the reality several party supporters preferred to remain silent on