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| Rahul Gandhi didn't take things lying down | | Prestigious Newsweek magazine forced to apologise | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI| JAN 17
Much sought-after member of Lok Sabha and Sonia Gandhiu's son, Rahul Gandhi has sprung a mine even on his party's stalwarts by the demonmstration of his courage to fight all kinds of falsehood. He had reasons to lose his cool after a prestigious foreign publication, Newsweek, published an "inaccurate" report on his educational qualifications.
Cover story of the publication had said that despite having studied at universities abroad, Rahul Gandhi has failed to earn a degree. The Congress party--apparently at the instane of the mother-son duo-- wasted no time in slapping a legal notice on the Newsweek magazine. The notice was sent to the magazine's New York office by the party's in-house legal expert, Abhishek Singhvi.
Responding to the notice, the magazine has apologised to Rahul Gandhi for wrongly stating that he failed to earn a degree. In fact, Newsweek Editor, Fareed Zakaria, clarified that the young Congress leader indeed earned his first degree from a US institution.
Correcting the 'inaccuracies', Fareed Zakaria said: "Serious, immediate and life-threatening security concerns compelled Gandhi to transfer (from Harvard) to Rollins College in Florida, from which he graduated with a BA in 1994. Gandhi then went on to receive an MPhil in Development Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University".
The other inaccuracy in the article Singhvi objected to was the contention that Rahul Gandhi never held a steady, regular job. The magazine admitted that Rahul had indeed worked for a leading global-strategy consulting group, Monitor, for three years in London.
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