Smriti Irani vs Madhu Kishwar: Let's debate policies, not degrees

By kousik

Editor’s Note: We received this comment on our piece Modi-fan Madhu Kishwar attacks ‘12th pass’ Smriti Irani on Twitter and have published it as a user comment. As is Firstpost policy, the comment has been lightly edited for grammar.

Belittling someone for their (un)education is not helping matters. A close observation will reveal the best ministers were not the Ox-bridge bunch but hard-working people from humble background. The best example to me was K.Kamaraj, ex-CM of TN. He’s known as ‘Padikatha methai’ - the uneducated genius. Schemes pioneered by him in various sectors are instrumental in TN being among some of the top performing states.

On the other hand, looking at the darker side, we had Dr. Manmohan Singh, a Cambridge educated economist, truly must be a scholar. What did we get out of him? Abdication of power. We had Kapil Sibal as the HRD minister, we got ill-conceived policies right from primary education to foreign universities in India. And not to forget the (in)-famous zero loss argument.

Let’s not judge or criticise the people rather discuss and debate their policies. A very necessary shift in political discussions in India!