Rassi jal gayi par bal nahi gaya, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP spokesperson on the Congress's remark on Smriti Irani.

Yesterday, Congress leader Ajay Maken has touched off a political storm with a series of tweets deriding the new Narendra Modi cabinet.

In one of them, he questioned the educational qualifications of Smriti Irani, who has taken over as Human Resource Development Minister.

"What a Cabinet of Modi? HRD Minister (Looking after Education) Smriti Irani is not even a graduate! Look at her affidavit at ECI site pg 11 (sic)!" Maken tweeted, immediately inviting sharp reactions.

Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah, whose party the National Conference is an UPA ally, tweeted last night: "To say that someone needs to be educated to be HRD Min is like saying one needs to be a pilot for Civil Aviation or a miner for Coal Min."