India, Jan. 4 -- Mohamed Irfaan Ali, a fourth generation Indian, who studied in Delhi and accused of academic fraud, is seeking the Presidency of Guyana. His great grandparents left India to work on sugar plantations in then British Guiana.
Some half of Guyana's 800,000 population is of Indian origin. Mr Ali studied at the Indraprastha University (IU) in Delhi where he obtained a Provisional MA.
News reports out of Guyana say he was implicated in academic fraud submitting a fake undergraduate degree to support his application for admission to the MA program at IU in 2002.
Mr Ali is the candidate of the opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP) who is challenging the incumbent Mr David Granger, leader of the People's National Congress l...