The Indian Express: Kolkata: Thursday, April 13, 2017.
Ashok Sarkar
had filed an RTI seeking to know whether Ghosh had passed his diploma from
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar Polytechnic College in Jhargram.
A FORMER BJP
state committee member lodged a complaint on Wednesday against state BJP
president Dilip Ghosh with Election Commission (EC) and asked the poll panel to
take action against Ghosh for allegedly lying about his educational
qualifications in election affidavit.
Former BJP
leader Ashok Sarkar had filed an RTI on January 25, seeking to know whether
Ghosh had passed diploma in Engineering and Technology from Iswarchandra
Vidyasagar Polytechnic College in Jhargram, West Midnapore, as was claimed by
him in his affidavit submitted for the state Assembly elections.
Last Friday,
Sarkar, who was expelled from the BJP last year, received the RTI reply from
the Jhargram college that said Ghosh did not pass the diploma from the college
between 1975 and 1990.
In his
complaint lodged at the office of the state Chief Electoral Officer, Sarkar
also asked the Election Commission to cancel Ghosh’s state Assembly membership
for “suppressing facts about his educational qualification and declaring false
and misleading information.”
“No elected
MLA should suppress facts about his educational qualification in his affidavit.
This is unacceptable. I asked the EC to take appropriate action against him
under Representation of the People Act, 1951 and other statute,” Sarkar told
The Indian Express.
When
contacted, Ghosh refused to comment on the matter.
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