After all the brouhaha over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's so-called 'fake certificate', Delhi University (DU) came forward today and clarified that the PM's records have been maintained in DU and he cleared his BA exams from the University in 1978. He was awarded the degree in 1979.

DU also said that two different roll number's were allotted to Modi in 1977 and 1978 and his name 'Narendra Kumar Damodar Das Mody', which was seen on a marksheet flashed by AAP leader Ashutosh on TV, is nothing but a spelling mistake.

A copy of the certificate flashed by Ashutosh. A copy of the certificate flashed by Ashutosh.

Moments after Amit Shah flashed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BA and MA degrees at a press conference and demanded an apology from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for raking up a false issue, the AAP hit back, claiming that the degrees displayed by the BJP president were fake.

"PM Narendra Modi's degrees shown by Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are fake and forged," senior AAP leader Ashutosh had said as he asked how the two degrees have two different names. "The BA degree {shown below} has Narendra Kumar Damodardas Modi while the MA degree says his name is Narendra Damodardas Modi," he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged fake BA certificate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged fake BA certificate.

Accusing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of turning a "blatant lie into truth", BJP chief Amit Shah today displayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degrees as his party tried to clear the air around the Prime Minister's educational qualifications.

"We are putting both the degrees of the Prime Minister, the Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University and the MA from Gujarat University in public domain," Shah told in a press conference he addressed with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The BJP on today made public the BA and MA degrees of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought an apology from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for accusing Modi of lying about his educational qualification.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged fake MA certificate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged fake MA certificate.

Meanwhile, BJP MLA from Delhi's Babarpur constituency Naresh Gaur on Monday vouched that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stayed with him in 1974 when he came to Delhi to appear for his B.A. first year exams at Delhi University (DU).

"Modi ji stayed with me at the ABVP office at 33, Bungalow Road when he came to appear for his first year B.A. exams. He was an ordinary party worker back then," Gaur, a three-time legislator from Babarpur constituency in north-east Delhi, said.

However, Gaur said it was the only time that he saw Modi appearing for Delhi University exams.

"In 1975, during the Emergency we were arrested and stayed in jail for close to 10 months. I don't know what happened after that," Gaur said.

He was speaking on the sidelines of the press conference held here by BJP chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Modi's educational qualifications.

But, said Gaur, he was "sure" that Modi's degree from DU was real.

"I am one thousand percent sure that Modi's degree is real and not fake," he said.

Gaur said that there were spare rooms at the office where party workers from outside Delhi could briefly stay, and that he himself stayed all the time at the office as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak. Bungalow Road is close to Delhi University.

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