New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s personal life has always been under prying eyes. But the usually uber cool Gandhi did not take things lying down when Newsweek magazine published an 'inaccurate' report on his educational qualifications.
The magazine’s cover story said that despite having studied at universities abroad, Rahul Gandhi has failed to earn a degree. The Congress party wasted no time in slapping a legal notice on the 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 Gandhi for wrongly stating that he failed to earn a degree. Newsweek Editor Fareed Zakaria clarified that the young Congress leader indeed earned his first degree from a US institution.
"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," Zakaria said, correcting the 'inaccuracies'.
The other inaccuracy in the article Singhvi objected to was the contention that Rahul 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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