{"id":127818,"date":"2015-08-26T01:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/26\/npcc-asks-cm-to-come-clean-over-his-educational-qualifications\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T01:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T01:25:30","slug":"npcc-asks-cm-to-come-clean-over-his-educational-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/npcc-asks-cm-to-come-clean-over-his-educational-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"NPCC asks CM to come clean over his educational qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee NPCC has described as \u201ca matter of serious concern\u201d the complaint lodged with the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kohima against chief minister T.R. Zeliang for allegedly providing false information about his educational qualifications in the election affidavit and other official records.<\/div>\n<div>In a press release, Media Cell, NPCC said as per the complaint, the chief minister claimed to have graduated from Kohima Arts College in 1979 (Nagaland Legislative Assembly record) and 1980 (election affidavit of 2013).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>However, according to RTI information attached with the complaint, he had failed miserably in all subjects in 1979 and had no record of appearing BA exams in 1980.<\/div>\n<div>Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee &nbsp;demanded that chief minister T.R. Zeliang come clean on this serious allegation since the state cannot afford to have a political head of the state with \u201cdubious educational qualifications.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Further, Congress party demanded that the chief minister, to put speculations to rest, publicly substantiate his graduation records of either 1979 or 1980 as claimed.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Failure to substantiate, NPCC said he has no moral right to remain in office and should immediately step down and pave way for an impartial investigation.<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee &nbsp;has also appealed to the Sr Superintendent of Police, Kohima to register a case based on the complaint lodged and immediately carry out thorough investigation in the interest of all concerned.<\/div>\n<div>The complainant, Kiesamyi Iranguang of Jalukie town, also enclosed annexure of copies of T.R.Zeliang\u2019s signed statements over educational qualifications as per RTI .<\/div>\n<div>It was also learnt that the SP Kohima had received the same complaint letter and that the case would be looked into.<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, when earlier contacted by Nagaland Post on Sunday, chief minister T.R. Zeliang questioned the complainant as to under what Act was educational qualification was required to be an MLA or MP.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The chief minister also said no certificates or marksheets were submitted when he filed nomination papers as there was no such requirement.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee NPCC has described as \u201ca matter of serious concern\u201d the complaint lodged with the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kohima against chief minister T.R. Zeliang for allegedly providing false information about his educational qualifications in the election affidavit and other official records. In a press release, Media Cell, NPCC said as per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}