Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday alleged that BJP candidate Queen Oja was not eligible to contest even a zila parishad member’s post because of her low educational qualification. “The BJP government in Assam has set class XII as the minimum educational qualification to become a zila parishad member. Going by their own criteria, Oja is not even eligible to be a zila parishad member,” Gogoi said. Early this month Oja mentioned that she had passed class XII from an open university. She later filed another affidavit mentioning her educational qualification as class X -pass.

Source: The Telegraph April 20, 2019 19:30 UTC