Maharashtra minister in trouble over fake degree

Mumbai: Maharashtra’s high-profile Education Minister Vinod Tawde is in for trouble following revelations in regional channel, Mi Marathi, which claimed that the engineering degree that he has is from an unrecognised university. 

A senior BJP leader, Tawde is Minister for School Education and Sports, Higher and Technical Education, Medical Education, Marathi Language and Cultural



Affairs.  The development comes in wake of a fake degree issue involving Delhi's former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar. 

Tawde, according to an affidavit filed with the Election Commission, holds a BE (Electronics) degree from Pune-based Sant Dnyaneshwar University, which is not affiliated with UGC or AICTE or Maharashtra's Directorate of Technical Education.