HOW OLD IS OUR PM?
Friday, 17 May 2013 | Anup Sharma | Guwahati
By all indications, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh submitted a wrong affidavit before the Returning Officer for re-election to the Rajya Sabha in Assam on Wednesday.
In the affidavit, the Prime Minister mentioned his age as 82 years, but according to the Prime Minister’s website www.pmindia.nic.in, Singh’s date of birth is September 26, 1932. It means, the Prime Minister is 80 years and seven months old.
The Rajya Sabha website too has Manmohan Singh’s date of birth as September 26, 1932.
The first page of the affidavit the Prime Minister submitted to the returning officer along with his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha polls reads as: “I Manmohan Singh, son of Late Shri Gurumukh Singh, aged 82 years, resident of House no 3989, Nandan Nagar, Village Sarumotoria, Guwahati 781006, a candidate at the above election, do hereby solemnly affirm and state an oath as under:”.
In contrast to the affidavit, the profile of the Prime Minister in the above mentioned website-the content of which is managed by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO)-mentioned the following: "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India. Dr. Singh completed his Matriculation examinations from the Punjab University in 1948…."
Incidentally, on May 7, 2007, when Singh filed his nomination papers seeking re-election to the Upper House for the fourth consecutive term, he had mentioned in his affidavit that he was "aged about 74 years". A PDF file of that affidavit is available in National Election Watch website www.myneta.info .
When the error was pointed out, Assam Legislative Assembly Secretary Gauranga Das refused to comment on the issue and only said: "The Prime Minister has submitted his papers and we have kept those. The scrutiny of the papers will take place on May 21 and we are going to check the papers on that day only."
Senior advocate of the Gauhati High Court Nekibur Zaman said: "The matter should be brought to the notice of the Election Commission of India. No one should furnish false information under the Peoples Representation Act. Singh's nomination papers may face rejection if there is false information in those."
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