Fake Claim About VC Who Signed PM Modi’s Degree Certificate Goes Viral

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By BOOM FACT Check Team Social media posts claiming former Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Professor KS Shastri, whose signature is seen on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Masters’s degree, passed away in 1981, two years before the certificate was issued, is false. BOOM found that the claim is entirely false. The screenshot used to make the claim shows the tenure of Shastri as vice-chancellor of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, and not the dates of his birth and death. The false claim was made by several Congress supporters on Twitter and Facebook. Anil Patel, whose bio states that he i…

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