New Delhi, March 5 -- In a surprising statement likely to spark a political controversy, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar questioned former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's educational qualifications, claiming he failed twice at Cambridge and Imperial College. An excerpt of Mani Shankar Aiyar's interview was shared by BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya on X with caption, "Let the veil be stripped".

In the interview, Mani Shankar Aiyar said, "When Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister, I thought, how could a person who was an airline pilot and had failed twice become the prime minister?"

"I studied with him at Cambridge, where he had failed. Failing at Cambridge University is very difficult because the university tries to ensure that e...