WHOM ARE YOU ACCUSING 

OF CORRUPTION ?

In her affidavit for the April 2004 Lok Sabha polls, Smriti Irani had claimed to have completed her BA in 1996 from DU (School of Correspondence), whereas in another affidavit of July 11, 2011 to contest the Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat, she had said her highest educational qualification was B.Com Part I from the School of Correspondence, DU. In the affidavit filed for nomination of April 16, 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Irani said she had completed Bachelor of Commerce Part-I from School of Open Learning, DU.

While a case is going on a court against Smriti Irani's claim of having passed B.A., there is no doubt that she is guilty of misrepresentation of facts in her multiple affidavits. These are offences for which the guilty have to suffer jail terms. 

And yet, not only that she continues as a member of the Rajya Sabha, Smriti Irani also continues to be the the HRD Minister of the Country, presiding over the destiny of institutions catering to the highest levels of education. 

Legality and morality be damned.

But then, why should you bother about such little things, when you yourself rode the charge of falsifying in your affidavits to a massive victory. 

But, the Country is seeing through the charade. the people have answered twice with telling blows. They will do so again, notwithstanding all the machinations.

A PTI report of May 03, 2016, states the following :

Assistant registrar of the School of Open Learning, Delhi University, O.P. Tanwar, told Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate, Harvinder Singh,  that the class 12 documents, submitted with the admission form for the 1993-'94 B.A. Fy, Political Science degree course, by Union RD minister Smriti Irani, are yet to be found by the University. The university’s response came in pursuance to the court’s earlier order summoning documents from its School of Open Learning department.

The court also asked the SDM of north Delhi to bring the documents filed by Irani with the affidavit for contesting the 2004 polls from Chandni Chowk constituency here and fixed the matter for further hearing on June 6.

The court had earlier directed the Election Commission and DU to bring the documents related to educational qualification of Irani on a complaint filed against her for allegedly giving false information in affidavits to the poll panel.

The court had on November 20 last year allowed the plea of the complainant Ahmer Khan, a freelance writer, seeking a direction to EC and DU officials to bring records of Irani’s educational qualification after he said he was unable to place them before the court.

During the hearing, Vandita Srivastava, SDM of Gauriganj in Amethi, filed original and certified copies of documents filed by Irani during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and said “as per record, no document for (Irani’s) educational qualification was collected with the nomination form”.

The court also took on record the original and certified copies of documents filed by Irani pertaining to Irani’s Rajya Sabha nomination in Gujarat in 2011. Deputy secretary of the Gujarat assembly, S.M. Menon, filed the documents summoned by the court regarding Irani’s Rajya Sabha nomination and informed it that “a candidate need not to file supporting documents at the time of filing nomination.”