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Judge me by my work: Smriti Irani

New Delhi: Breaking her silence as regards the controversy over her education, HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said "extraneous circumstances" were created to deviate her attention from work and asked people to judge her by

Irani is at the centre of a raging controversy over her educational qualification after it emerged that she had made contradictory declarations when she contested Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and in 2014.

Madhu Kishwar, a women's rights activist, raked up a controversy over the fact that Irani, just a school graduate, has been made HRD Minister. The issue then snowballed.

Congress leader Ajay Maken had also taken a jibe at Irani's educational qualification.

"What a Cabinet of Modi? HRD Minister (looking after education) Smriti Irani is not even a graduate! Look at her affidavit at ECI site pg 11," he had tweeted.