“The deliberations on the proposed new policy will start next year and we should have a policy,” she said. Had she not been a Minister, the complainant would not have bothered to file the case, the court said. A Delhi court on Tuesday dismisssed a complaint against Union Minister for Textiles Smriti Irani alleging that she had filed different educational qualifications while filing her nominations for the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha polls. Had she not been a Minister, the complainant would not have bothered to file the case, the court said. The complainant alleged that in the nomination papers for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Ms. Irani said she had completed B.A.

Source: The Hindu October 18, 2016 11:37 UTC