Indian Express: Kolkata: Sunday,
April 09, 2017.
A polytechnic
college that West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh claimed to have passed out from
has denied his claims in response to an RTI filed by an ousted BJP leader Ashok
Sarkar.
Kharagpur MLA
Dilip Ghosh had stated in the 2016 Assembly elections affidavit that he had
passed diploma from Jhargram polytechnic college in West Bengal’s Paschim
Medinipur district.
However, in
response to Ashok Sarkar’s RTI query, the polytechnic college replied that
Dilip Ghosh had not passed out from the college from 1975 to 1990.
“As per our
office record, Sri Dilip Ghosh, son of late Bhulanath Ghosh, Vill. Kuliana,
P.O: Malancha, P.S: Beliabera, Dist: Paschim Medinipur did not pass the Diploma
in Engineering/ Technology from this institute, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
Polytechnic by name, since 1975 to 1990,” the RTI reply from the principal
stated.
Vidyasagar
Polytechnic College is the only polytechnic college in Jhargram. Ghosh was born
in 1964, and the college accordingly calculated the maximum possible time
during which he might have pursued his diploma.
Ashok Sarkar
is likely to approach West Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi demanding that
Dilip Ghosh be expelled from the Assembly. He may also take the legal route,
accusing Ghosh of faking his qualifications to the Election Commission. The
Bengal BJP chief told media that Sarkar was free to move court.
Dilip Ghosh,
a former RSS pracharak, has courted several controversies during the saffron
party’s fight against ruling Trinamool Congress, and had recently termed their
fight as between ‘Ramzada’ and ‘Haramzada’.
An FIR under
the Arms Act was also lodged against Dilip Ghosh for openly displaying weapons
during the Ram Navami procession in his constituency of Kharagpur.
BJP national
secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has dared Mamata Banerjee to arrest Dilip Ghosh.