Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has criticised those who have been raising the issue of educational qualification of leaders as wasting time on matters that can wait.
In a surprising statement, senior NCP leader and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has raised an interesting question which would pour cold water on all the hot debates the Opposition has been trying hard to create, though unsuccessfully.
These days, both the Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the Congress are busy making ‘degree’ taunts at Narendra Modi. For Congress, it was a campaign pushed by its media department in response to the BJP’s ‘foreign intervention’ attack on Rahul Gandhi.
In setting aside the Central Information Commission’s 2016 direction to the Gujarat University to disclose information on the prime minister’s MA degree, the high court failed to ask what injury to public interest that disclosure would cause.