Tanwar seeks minister’s resignation over ‘fake’ degree

Jind: Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar on Saturday sought resignation of state forest and PWD minister Rao Narbir Singh following a row over his alleged fake educational degree. A Gurgaon-based RTI activist had on Friday accuse the minister of misleading the election commission (EC) about his degrees in the poll affidavit he filed in 2005, 2009 and 2014.

Tanwar was addressing media persons in Jind after giving training to Congress workers for coordinating with media. On the occasion, the Congress leader said that fake degree issue had started with Prime Minster Narendra Modi, Union minister Smriti Irani, ABVP chief of Delhi University Ankiv Baisoya and now Rao Narbir Singh was also involved in this. He said the minister should resign or the BJP should act against him as the details of his educational qualifications that he had submitted before the EC in 2005 and 2014 mismatched, indicating fraud.

On the recent elections results in five states, he said that the BJP was 5-0 and the Congress stopped the ‘Vijay Rath’ of Prime Minister Modi and party president Amit Shah. “The Congress will win all 10 Lok Sabha seats and more than 80 seats in assembly in Haryana,” he claimed.

Speaking on nagar nigam elections, the state Congress president said that public would teach a lesson to those who have let the state burn many times and the people would also not cast their vote in favour of INLD also as they had established ‘gundraj’ in the state during their rule. “The BJP is using government machinery and violating rules to win the elections,” he alleged.


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