The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (September 29, 2026) rejected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against an order that set aside a directive asking Gujarat University to disclose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree.
Patel, had announced that Mr. In May 2016, the then GU Vice-Chancellor, M.N. Modi completed his MA in Political Science in 1983 with 62.3% as an external student.
He had submitted that the high court should impose costs on Mr. Kejriwal for filing his appeal to ensure that the RTI Act is not misused and government officials are not made to spend productive working hours dealing with requests that do not serve the Act’s purpose. Kejriwal had written to the CIC demanding that the Prime Minister’s degree should be made public. Sridhar Acharyulu had directed the Delhi University and the GU to provide information to Mr. Kejriwal on the degrees that Mr. Modi received. The CIC order came a day after Mr. Modi’s educational qualifications.
In 2016, Mr. In April 2016, the then CIC M.
Kejriwal wrote to it, saying he has no objection to government records about him being made public and wondered why the commission wanted to “hide” information on Mr.
“In the totality of facts and circumstances of the present case, no error on any of the submissions of the appellant hearing can be found in the judgment impugned.
The appeal stands dismissed accordingly with no further order as to cost,” the High Court said in its order.
