AMETHI, Apr 12:
Taking offence against Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani, who is pitted against party president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi Lok Sabha seat, after the BJP candidate in her affidavit said that she was just a 12th pass and not a graduate.
Congress is on offence against Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani, who is pitted against party president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi Lok Sabha seat, after the BJP candidate in her affidavit said that she was just a 12th pass and not a graduate.
Smriti, who had filed her nomination papers from Amethi seat on Thursday, had said in the affidavit that she just appeared in the Part-1 graduation and could not pass it.
In the affidavit, Smriti said she passed the CBSE 10th and 12th boards from Holy Child Auxilium Cchool in 1991 and 1993, respectively. She further disclosed that she joined Bachelor of Commerce Part-1 from School of Open Learning (Correspondence), from the University of Delhi in 1994, but she did not complete the three-year course.
The Congress leaders are now demanding that Ms Irani, who claimed herself as graduate and given the same in her affidavit in the past, should be debarred from the elections.
Congress MLC Deepak Singh, in a statement here, said that EC should take cognisance of the wrong statement filed by the Union minister in the past and action should be taken against her.
“Smriti Irani should face for consequence for given wrong affidavit in the election commission in the past elections and her present nominations from Amethi should be rejected,” Ms Singh, who hails from Amethi demanded.
The Congress leader made it clear that the entire BJP party under the leadership of Narendra Modi has given false undertakings and the example of Smriti Irani is certainly a gross misuse of law.
In the past during 2004 Lok Sabha polls, when Smriti contested from Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat in Delhi, in her affidavit she claimed that she is graduate, but when she contested from Amethi in 2014, she said she was B Com pass.
Later, a debate broke out about her educational qualification and the matter even went to the court, when she was Union Minister for HRD. (UNI)
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