Narendar Modi Center government's Textiles and information and broadcasting minister Smriti Irani at the time of filling declaration as part of his nomination papers for the Gujarat Rajsabha MP election has clarified in her affidavit that she has not yet completed her Bachelor of Commerce course.

Where Smriti Irani's 2014 election affidavit for the Lok Sabha seat, when she fought against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Amethi, she had entered, under the education qualifications column, ‘B.Com. Part 1, School of Correspondence, Delhi University, 1994’.

She had made the same entry in her affidavit for election to the Rajya Sabha in 2011. Curiously, in her affidavit for the 2004 Lok Sabha election, which she fought from Chandni Chowk in New Delhi, she wrote: ‘BA. 1996. Delhi University. School of Correspondence’.

The BJP minister wrong affidavits if prosecuted in court not only liable for arrest but could also warrant her barring from standing in election says legal experts.