Subramanian Swamy trains gun at Arvind Kejriwal, questions his IIT admission

BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Thursday raised questions over the process for Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s admission in the 1980s to IIT-Kharagpur, from where he was awarded B.Tech. (Hons) degree.

In a press release, he cited an RTI reply received from IIT-K to his query asking the institute to provide the basis of Mr Kejriwal’s entry into B.Tech. programme and his All-India Rank in any competitive exam such as JEE, and others. This information is not available, the institution said in the RTI reply.

The institute gave other details of Mr Kejriwal which included his Roll No. in the mechanical engineering course and the years of study, but did not provide the copy of grade sheet of subjects since these are exempt from disclosure under the transparency law.

Mr Swamy has been targeting Mr Kejriwal of late. Earlier this week, he joined a protest hungerstrike by Delhi BJP MP Maheish Girri against the Delhi chief minister where he declared he would go after Mr Kejriwal the way he took on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan.