Delhi High Court directive to quash order on disclosing PM’s degree is ‘incomprehensible’, says Congress

The Congress on Monday (August 25, 2025) said it is incomprehensible why the educational degree details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are kept a complete secret when such details of graduates have always been public.

The party’s response came after the Delhi High Court quashed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing disclosure of details related to Mr. Modi’s bachelor’s degree while holding it to be “personal information” and ruling out any “implicit public interest” in it.

“It is simply incomprehensible why the educational degree details of this particular PM should be kept a complete secret when such details of everyone else have always been and continue to be public,” Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.

“This incidentally was the reason why amendments to the RTI Act, 2005, were bulldozed through Parliament six years ago in the face of our determined opposition,” Mr. Ramesh added, sharing a video of a speech he had made in the Rajya Sabha during the debate on the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019, in which he had said that “this Bill is a pill designed to kill”, and will kill the RTI.

Following an RTI application, the CIC on December 21, 2016, allowed inspection of the records of all students who cleared the BA exam in 1978, the year the Prime Minister also passed the degree. The High Court, however, stayed the CIC order on January 23, 2017. On Monday (August 25, 2025), the court order said there was no implicit public interest with respect to the information sought under the RTI application.