Kejri may not accompany Melania to Delhi school

New Delhi, February 22

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia will not be present during US First Lady Melania Trump’s visit to a Delhi government school in the city on Tuesday as their names were dropped from the guest list for the event, sources said.

Melania is scheduled to visit the school to watch “happiness classes” and interact with the students.

Sources in the Delhi Government said the US Embassy communicated to the city administration on Saturday that names of Kejriwal and Sisodia do not figure in the list of invitees for the event. A US Embassy spokesperson referred the query to the Delhi Government on the matter.

According to the original schedule, Kejriwal and Sisodia were to welcome Melania at the school and brief her about rationale behind introduction of happiness classes as well as the Delhi government’s overall reform initiatives in the education sector, officials in the city said.

“Names of Kejriwal and Sisodia have been dropped from the list of invitees for the event. We do not know who will receive and brief the First Lady about happiness classes,” said a Delhi Government official. A series of tweets by Sisodia indicated the AAP dispensation’s unhappiness over it. — PTI