‘Mahatma Gandhi did not have a single university degree’: J&K L-G Manoj Sinha
Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha Friday said Mahatma Gandhi did not have a single university degree, let alone any law degree — “a misconception a lot of people have”.
Underlining that people should strive for more than just “degree education”, Sinha said: “A very few people know … even a lot of educated people have the misconception that Gandhiji had a law degree. Gandhiji did not have any degree.”
“Who would say Gandhiji was not educated? Nobody has the courage to say that. But did you know that he did not have a single university degree or qualification. There are many of us who think that Mahatma Gandhi had a law degree. No he did not. His only qualification was a high school diploma. He qualified to practise law. He did not have a law degree…. (But) Just look how educated he was…Our Father of the Nation,” he added.
The J&K L-G further added that he wants to make it clear that one should not “only be indulging in formal connection with a degree or what you think is education”.
Sinha’s statement comes just a day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked is it possible for a less-educated PM to build a 21st–century India. Claiming that thousands of govrenment schools were being shut down across the country, Kejriwal said: “Today, I want to put a question in front of the country — can a less educated PM build India of the 21st Century? The Prime Minister of India must be educated… If we had an educated PM, he would have understood the importance of schools and had opened more schools instead of shutting them down,” he said.Addressing a public meeting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal said, “I am worried that the prime minister of the country is not educated. Anyone can get him to do anything. My question is whether there is no need of an educated prime minister in the 21st century? Can a less educated PM help in building 21st century?”
