The latest innovation comes from Punjab chief minister, who is wooing school students of the province through a letter being circulated in all public sector schools of Multan by official monitoring teams.
According to some teachers, the letter has been forwarded by the Chief Minister’s Secretariat with a direction to them (the teachers) to read it to students.
Some headmasters and principals have pasted the copies of the letter at prominent places in their schools and on the doors of classrooms.
Addressing the students (in the letter), Chief Minister Pervaiz Ealhi lists the services rendered by his government and expresses determination to increase the literacy rate in the province.
At the end of letter, the chief minister has requested the students to pray for the success of his party in the forthcoming elections.
A schoolteacher who did not want to be named said it was an unhealthy practice and that was why he had neither distributed nor read it to students.
“Though the present government has taken a number of steps to improve the education system in the province, I do not think that such kinds of letters should be distributed among students,” he said.
Reacting to the circulation of letter, PPP MPA Dr Javed Siddiqi said his party would file references against the present government for wasting public money on promotion of the ruling party.
He said the government had already spent billions of rupees on its image-building campaign by running advertisements on TV channels and newspapers.