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NSUI says new DUSU president’s degree is fake, ABVP rubbishes ‘fraudulent’ claim

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NSUI makes claim citing letter allegedly from Thiruvalluvar University, where Ankiv Baisoya studied. Baisoya says it’s a fake letter.

New Delhi: The recently-elected Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) president Ankiv Baisoya has furnished a fake certificate and marksheet to secure admission in Delhi University, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) alleged Tuesday.

The NSUI shared a letter, bearing the name of Tamil Nadu’s Thiruvalluvar University where Baisoya completed his BA degree from, which stated that the certificate in question is “not genuine” and “fake”.

NSUI shares the letter which claims DUSU president's degree is fake
The letter claiming Ankiv baisoya’s certificate to be fake shared by the NSUI | NSUI

However, Baisoya — from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (ABVP) — who won the controversial election on 13 September, denied the allegation claiming the letter to be fraudulent.

Baisoya is a Master’s student in the Department of Buddhist Studies under Delhi University’s faculty of arts.

Thiruvallavur University’s controller of examination, B. Senthilkumar, didn’t respond to calls for comment. Senthilkumar’s name doesn’t appear on the said letter. The story will be updated when he responds.


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NSUI version

The letter shared by the Congress students wing was allegedly released by the controller of examination of the Vellore based University.

However, the letter didn’t mention what the certificate is for — graduation or not. There was no clarity about the marksheet.

NSUI media and communications in-charge Saimon Farooqui said, “This marksheet was presented by Ankiv Baisoya for taking admission in MA Buddhist Studies. The University clearly refuses to have enrolled a student of such name and a marksheet with such serial number.

“ABVP is following the footsteps of their parent organisation RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) where the candidates contest and win election by unfair means,” he added.

Farooqui was referring to the controversy over the educational certificates of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

‘Fraud letter’

Speaking to ThePrint, the DUSU president said, “The letter provided by them (NSUI) is a fraud, no such letter has been released by the University.”

Baisoya added, “NSUI has lost the election and has nothing to do now, so it is bringing fake letters to challenge my candidature.”

The NSUI lost three out of four seats, including the president’s post, to the RSS-affiliated student wing in last week’s election.

Bharat Khatana, ABVP’s Delhi state in-charge, also supported Baisoya’s statement.

“Delhi University gave admission to Baisoya only after due verification of its documents. Verification of the documents is the due process of Delhi University and not NSUI’s job,” he said.


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“If you read the letter thoroughly, you will see that in the first date line, the column is incomplete. They also didn’t mention the letter number as to which the university was responding,” Khatana said.

Not the first time

This, though, isn’t the first time that an elected DUSU president’s candidature has been challenged after election.

Last year too, there was a controversy over NSUI’s Rocky Tuseed’s candidature. Tuseed was disqualified by DU authorities on 6 September. He approached the Delhi High Court which set aside the disqualification. Tuseed went on to win and stayed president till 21 July when his disqualification was upheld. However, on 1 August, the court stayed the order upholding Tuseed’s disqualification.

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