UP Teacher Booked for Urging Students to Prioritise Studies over Kanwar Yatra
Piyush Srivastava | 17 July 2025 | The Telegraph
A case has been registered against a government school teacher for reciting a poem in the morning assembly to encourage students to focus only on studies and dream big.
A video has gone viral showing Rajnish Gangwar, a teacher at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Inter College in Bahedi, Bareilly, reciting his self-composed poem that starts with the line: "Tum kanwar lene mat jana, tum gyan ke deep jalana (Don't go to fetch the kanwar, instead light the lamp of knowledge)."..