Mamata Banerjee had claimed she has a PhD diploma, however the college by no means existed

In 1985, the then Congress MP from Jadavpur Mamata Banerjee stood uncovered when the United States Educational Foundation in India proclaimed that there didn’t exist an establishment named ‘The University of East Georgia’ from the place she had claimed to have allegedly accomplished her doctorate.
A Twitter consumer named @trunills has shared an outdated newspaper clip from ‘The Telegraph’ saying that Mamata Banerjee, an MA in Islamic History from Calcutta University, had in 1982 claimed that she had acquired the “doctorate” for her analysis work entitled “The Impact of Mughal Harem on state and policies” below the steerage of a sure Dr. Karuna Pada Datta.
As per the Telegraph report, it was later revealed that Datta too had accomplished his “PhD” from ‘The University of East Georgia’ and each the instructor and pupil had bogus doctorates.
Till in 1985, Mamata claimed to have obtained a PhD diploma from East Georgia University of USA. In 1984 LS polls, partitions of Jadavpur had “Dr Mamata Banerjee” written throughout them. Later discovered that no such University existed, subsequently Mamata stopped prefixing “Dr” to her identify. pic.twitter.com/e6QEmq4U3q— নীলসুনীল (@trunills) January 24, 2021
In the run-up to the 1984 elections, as per the tweet, Mamata Banerjee prefixed her identify with ‘Dr’, claiming that she had accomplished her doctorate. Reportedly, the partitions of Jadavpur, from the place Banerjee contested the seat, had been painted with “Dr. Mamata Banerjee”. After it got here to mild that the University from which Banerjee had putatively accomplished her PhD didn’t exist, she stopped prefixing her identify with the ‘Dr’ title.
After Mamata Banerjee began utilizing the title of ‘Dr’, the United States Educational Foundation in India started receiving a number of queries on the bona fides of the ‘University of East Georgia’. Responding to at least one such question in February 1985, the USEFI mentioned that “there is no record whatsoever of the existence of a university called the University of East Georgia”. It additional added that any particular person or group claiming to symbolize a number of of the bogus organizations talked about above is a fraud.
In one other response to a analysis scholar, USEFI mentioned that “American International University” to which the “University of East Georgia” was supposedly affiliated, was “not properly accredited” and ipso facto the establishment “may not be recognised by other universities and governments”.
Mamata Banerjee defended herself after it got here to mild that her PhD was bogus
Apparently, Ms Banerjee had despatched her thesis to Dr Datta together with the prescribed charges. The latter despatched the thesis to a sure Prof P.Okay Mahesh, “admission counsellor, University of East Georgia”, and school member, American International University, USA, posted in Delhi.
Banerjee had then acquired a provisional certificates for her analysis work and was promised the “original degree” on sending $500 to the college authorities. Even after three years since she accomplished the doctorate and acquired a “provisional certificate”, she had not despatched the $500.
After it turned evident that the University of East Georgia is a bogus college, Ms Banerjee had defended herself in an interview with The Telegraph. Mamata had alleged that she had submitted her thesis in good religion to Dr Datta as it will not binding on her to go to the United States. Dr Datta, however, had handed the buck on Prof. P.Okay Mahesh for his predicament. Datta had then mentioned that it was Mahesh who had authorised him to function a analysis information in Kolkata(Calcutta) and had been sustaining common correspondence with the latter. Datta additionally puzzled if Mahesh may run an workplace in New Delhi if there was something murky in regards to the ‘University of East Georgia’.