Days after Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational
qualification, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released his college
degrees and demanded an apology from the AAP supremo for his desperate attempts
to turn a 'blatant lie into truth'.
Addressing a press conference here along with his senior colleague
and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, BJP president Amit Shah said
Kejriwal tried to turn a 'blatant lie into truth' and create confusion with his
assertions that Prime Minister Modi's degrees are fake.
"We are putting the Prime
Minister's both degrees (Bachelor of Arts from DU and MA from Gujarat
University) in public domain," he said while urging the media not to
entertain such petty and disgraceful news.
Shah said that Kejriwal caused an
embarrassment and, therefore, should tender an apology for his baseless
allegations.
"I will write a letter to
Kejriwal ji so that he is reassured. It is a shame that we have to clarify it.
Arvind Kejriwal has stooped to a new low. This is disgraceful. He now owes an
apology not only to the Prime Minister, but to the entire nation," Shah
said.
"Unfortunate, we have to
clarify the Prime Minister's qualifications. For the last few days, Arvind Kejriwal has been spreading lies about the
Prime Minister's credentials. He has tried to defame Prime Minister Modi.
Kejriwal must come out and explain his motives," he added.
Jaitley also came down heavily on
Kejriwal for making such statements in public and criticizing Prime Minister
Modi without checking facts.
"This is a public discourse
at its lowest. This comes from a political party whose leaders are being
prosecuted for fake degrees," he said.
Jaitley further said the Delhi Chief Minister's irresponsible behaviour
is destabilising the Centre-state relationship.
"The politics of adventurism
is being treated as substitute for governance. I urge them (AAP) to avoid such
non-issues and focus on the real issues that need to addressed in better
governance," he added.
The Central Information Commission
(CIC) had earlier directed the Delhi University and the Gujarat University to
make best possible search for information regarding the Prime Minister's
degrees and provide it to 'appellant' Kejriwal.
The AAP chief had earlier
claimed the Delhi University's records showed that Prime Minister Modi had
never enrolled in the university, contradicting the latter's claim that he
obtained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from DU.Source:ANI
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