AAP MLA DENIES ALLEGATION THAT SHE GAVE FALSE INFO ON HER EDU QUALIFICATION

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Preeti Tomar on Friday denied the allegation that she gave a false declaration regarding her educational qualifications in her nomination form. Tomar told the Delhi High Court that her MSC and BED degrees were issued in her maiden name which she changed after her marriage.

The MLA claimed that prior to her marriage to former AAP MLA Jitender Singh Tomar, her maiden name was Kumari Tulsa Solanki and she was enrolled under that name in the Raghunath Girls Degree College which is affiliated with the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, earlier known as Meerut University.

The submissions were given to the high court in a plea challenging the election of Tomar’s wife. The plea has been moved by Tri Nagar constituent Naveen Parashar, represented by advocate Anil Soni, who has alleged that she has misrepresented herself to be “MSC and BED passed” and “thus, was successful in exercising undue influence over the voters, which amounts to corrupt practice within the meaning of the Representation of the Peoples Act”.

Preeti said that after her marriage in 1998, she had changed her name to Preeti Tomar and the change was announced in 2017 in two daily newspapers.