New Delhi: Uttarakhand education minister Arvind. Pandey visited  a government school recently turned the Mathematics and Chemistry upside down. 

The minister in the BJP-led state government paid a surprise visit to Dehradun's Mahila Inter College on Monday this week. Pandey entered a class in which a female teacher was teaching science. Since the minister was in the college to inspect the quality of education in government-run schools, he thought of asking a question or two of the teacher. 

He picked up chalk and duster, walked up to the board, and wrote (-) + (-) = 'what'. The teacher said the answer was (-). But the minister was in no mood to concede grounds, claiming that the answer to his question was (+), adding, "I have also studied science".

According to Pandey, (-) + (-)= (+) in mathematics but (-) in Chemistry, a theory he seems to have propounded on his own. Another official, accompanying the minister, maintained a strategic silence, though perhaps realizing minister's folly. 

However, Pandey was least bothered by the correct response of the teacher. He sat in a chair, raised his finger, and endeavoured to draw his point once again home. Before leaving the classroom, he warned the teacher, "I am sparing you because you are a woman

16 Sep 2017.