DU refuses info on PM degree
New Delhi: Delhi University (DU) has once again refused to part with information related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree. The response to an RTI query filed by lawyer Mohammed Irsad drew a sharp reaction from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which said that the mystery around the Prime Minister’s educational qualifications has only deepened.
“DU, as a matter of policy, seeks to maintain the privacy of every student as it holds the data pertaining to a student in a fiduciary relationship with the student concerned,” read the RTI response from the university.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had earlier asked for details of the PM’s degree to be made public, tweeted: “This deepens the mystery around PM’s degree. If DU feels it is private info, then under RTI Act, DU should write to PM and seek his permission.”
In April, Kejriwal has requested the Central Information Commission (CIC) to make details of Modi’s educational qualifications public, following which the CIC had given directions to DU to provide the necessary details. However, DU has steadfastly refused to share the information, leading AAP to allege that the Prime Minister’s degree is fake.
In the midst of the controversy, BJP president Amit Shah and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley held a press conference where they displayed the PM Modi’s degrees, asking Kejriwal to apologise to Modi.
On Sunday, AAP Delhi convenor Dilip Pandey said that since Shah and Jaitley had already made the degrees public, the information was no longer private. “If DU is claiming that the information is private, were degrees the degrees shown by Shah and Jaitley fake? If DU feels this is personal information, it should ask the PM for permission to make them public. Shah himself said that those interested in the information should approach the university but DU is refusing to part with information,” he said.
“A college takes pride in its students if they are achievers and well known, like actor Shah Rukh Khan’s college. It should be a matter of pride for a college if the PM studied there, not a matter of secrecy. This only adds weight to our theory that the degrees are fake, ” Pandey added.
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