New Delhi: Om Prakash Chautala, former Haryana chief minister, has taken the tenth grade English exam.
The 86-year-old politician sat for the exam on August 18 at Arya Kanya Senior Secondary School in Sirsa, a town in the northern Indian state, some 265 km northwest of New Delhi.
Chautala had reportedly requested a writer because of a fracture and was allowed one. The president of the Indian National Lok Dal reportedly finished the exam in two hours and left.
Chautala had taken his twelfth grade examinations under the Haryana Open Board earlier this year. But when the results were declared on August 5, his were held back because he had not yet taken a mandatory tenth grade English exam.
For his twelfth grade results to be released, the veteran Haryana leader needed to clear the English compartmental exam.
The former Chief Minister passed his tenth grade exam from the National Institute of Open School in 2017, while he was serving a jail sentence ordered by the Supreme Court over his role in a teachers’ recruitment scam. At the time, his son Abhay Chautala had announced to reporters that his father had taken the twelfth grade exams and had cleared it with first division. But the institute clarified later that it was his tenth grade exam.
Chautala studied for the latest exam in Tihar Jail in Delhi, where he served his 10-year sentence from 2013. Along with his son Ajay Chautala and 53 others, the four-time chief minister was released in July this year, two months before schedule on account of a special remission.
Source: ndtv.com