New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood on Thursday tore into the previous AAPDa government's much-hyped "education revolution," calling it less a reform and more a manipulative strategy to inflate school performance statistics.

Ashish Sood on Saturday said that data presented in the Rajya Sabha has exposed the previous AAP government's "education revolution," alleging that it was not a reform-driven initiative but a "filtering policy" that pushed students out of the mainstream system to improve statistics.

Reacting to a written reply by the Ministry of Education in Parliament, Sood said it has now become evident that the policy of shifting large numbers of students who failed Class 9 to the National Institute of Open S...