New Delhi: In a bid to stop controversy over her education qualifications from flaring up anymore, Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday urged the Professor Dinesh Singh, the vice-chancellor of the Delhi University, to reinstate the officials suspended on Friday.
Irani, who has already urged people to judge her on the basis of her work, took to microblogging website Twitter to say that she is open to scrutiny and criticism.
Since DU is an autonomous institution I have put forth my personal appeal to the VC to reinstate the officials.
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) May 31, 2014
In public life one should be open to scrutiny and criticism. So am I.
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) May 31, 2014 The Delhi University suspended five of the non-teaching staff, all below section officer level, for allegedly leaking documents related to educational qualifications of Irani.
The DU took the action after a Hindi daily published the leaked documents. The daily had written that Irani had taken admission in DU's School of Open Learning last year, but had not appeared for her examination.
Irani is in the centre of a controversy due to her educational qualifications that has led to a full-blown war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Congress had alleged that Irani had misrepresented facts in her election affidavits.
The Congress leaders have said that Irani in her affidavit -- when she was contesting the 2004 Lok Sabha election -- mentioned her qualification as bachelor of arts (BA) which she passed in 1996 from Delhi University's school of correspondence.
But in her affidavit for this year's Lok Sabha election, the actor-turned-politician mentioned her educational qualification as "Bachelor of Commerce Part I, School of Open Learning (Correspondence), University of Delhi - 1994."
The Congress has protested against an "undergraduate" being appointed the HRD minister.
The BJP countered it with questions about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's academic background.
(With IANS inputs)
First Published: Saturday, May 31, 2014, 09:22
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