New Delhi: The controversy over HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s educational qualifications has taken a new turn with her assertion that she also has a degree from the prestigious Yale University in the US.
Irani(38) made the remark when pressed by a questioner at the India Today Woman Summit 2014 here to clear the “mystery” over her educational degrees.
Soon after the Lok Sabha results were announced on May 16, Irani was at the centre of a raging controversy over her educational qualifications after it emerged that she had made contradictory declarations when she contested the parliamentary elections in 2004 and 2014.
“In that kitty of mine where people call me ‘anpad'(illiterate) I do have a degree from Yale University as well which I can bring out and show how Yale celebrated by leadership capacities. “Extraneous circumstances are being created so that I deviate my concentration from what my goals are,” she said at the event on Saturday. (PTI)