Jammu: Congress today accused the Central government of hatching a conspiracy to saffronise education by appointing "unqualified" people with RSS background to head premier educational institutions across the country.
"Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani is diluting the education sector of the country by appointing unqualified people who come from RSS background to head various top educational institutions across the country," President All India Mahila Congress and party spokesperson Shoba Ohja told reporters here today.
Ohja accused Irani of pursuing a hidden agenda to rewrite history to suit the RSS ideology.
"From the past one year it has become evident that the Narendra Modi government is working to disintegrate the education sector in the country, the recent incident when three directors of IIT Mumbai were shortlisted in few hours and which led to the resignation of the Chairman Anil Kakodkar is a glaring example of how this government is playing politics with the premier educational institutions in the country," she said.
Ohja accused Irani and the minister of state for HRD Ram Shankar Katheria of misguiding people of the country with fake degrees.
"We all know that Smriti Irani has shown a fake degree, she even claimed that she had a degree from Yale University which turned out to be just a course she attended there as an MP. The MoS in the HRD in the present government is also facing the charges of producing a fake BA degree," she said.
