Cong: Smriti Irani must come clean on discrepancy in affidavits to EC

May 28, 2014 16:59

The Congress has now altered its attacks on HRD minister Smriti Irani saying they were raising the issue of the discrepancies in the affidavits filed in 2004 and 2014. In an affidavit filed by Irani to the Election Commission in 2004, she claims to have completed her BA in 1996 from Delhi University's School of Correspondence. But in her affidavit filed with the EC in 2014, Irani claimed that she completed part one, that is the first year, of her bachelor degree in Commerce in the year 1994 from Delhi University's School of Open Learning. So, which is it, graduate or not?
That's what the Congress now wants to know and says its not a personal attack on her, but she has to clarify this discrepancy.

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