After differing on Adani issue, Sharad Pawar on Sunday said someone’s educational degree can’t be a political issue.
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday raised questions over whether someone’s education degree can be a political issue in the country at a time when the country is facing unemployment, law and order issues and inflation. The statement comes amid speculations triggered by his recent statement on Adani.
The issue has been raked up by the Aam Aadmi Party and jailed AAP leader Manish Sisodia wrote a letter from Tihar saying that the country needs to have an educated person in the PM’s post. The Gujarat high court set aside a 2016 order of the central information commissioner asking information be provided to AAP leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal about Modi’s university degrees under the Right to Information Act.
Reacting to Sharad Pawar’s stand on degree row, BJP’s national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, “Wonder if some leader of Congress, Uddhav Sena or AAP will now again attack him and call him names/abuse him! I sincerely hope they will listen to the Gujarat HC and their own ally too! We need to speak about the corruption degrees of people like Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia on which courts have ruled again and again.”
