These days, social media has been extensively used by the political parties to take a dig at their political rivals.
Since it is an election time, leaders of one political party have started digging out old videos to attack leaders of rival parties.
For the last few hours, a video clip of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has been doing rounds in the social media.
It was about KCR’s speech at a meeting to condole the demise of former Union minister G Venkatswamy.
In that short video clipping, one can watch the TRS president claiming that he had done his M Sc (Masters in Science) in political science.
Naturally, the video was aimed at exposing KCR’s alleged fake claims. First of all, KCR had done his masters in Telugu literature, which he himself had claimed several times.
His election affidavits and other biographic profiles show that he had studied MA Telugu. So, it is a surprise even to his closest friends as to how he had done masters in political science.
Secondly, there is no such thing called M Sc (political science) in any universities in Telangana or Andhra. M Sc is done in science subjects, whereas political science is an arts or humanities subject.
Of course, a Google search would indicate that there is an M Sc (political science), but it is offered by a few foreign universities, but not in India.
So, it could be either a slip of tongue or a false claim by KCR. Naturally, the Congress leaders have started circulating this video clip to say that whatever the TRS president says is just a hoax.
Well, if a person could do B Com with physics as a subject, there is no surprise in KCR doing his M Sc in political science,” a Congress leader commented.
His political rivals remind that in the past, too, KCR made a similar tall claim: that he had studied 80,000 books so far.
Assuming that it takes four hours for a person to read a book, he can at the most read three books in a day, after deducting hours of sleep and other activities. Thus, in a year, he can read at the most 1,000 books.
“It means, to read 80,000 books, he should have been 80 years by now. But KCR is only 64 years now. Assuming that he had started reading books from the age of 11 years, he must have completed only 50,000 books at the rate of 1,000 books a year,” his rivals pointed out.