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By Archis Chowdhury Social media is rife with claims suggesting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal did not clear the competitive Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for his admission into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and was admitted through corporate quota. Many of the posts made the claim based on a response by IIT Kharagpur to an RTI enquiry dated April 18, 2016, which stated that Kejriwal’s all India rank (AIR) was not available. BOOM found this claim to be false; Rajender Singh, former dean of undergraduate studies and admissions at the institute, had told Times of India that IITJEE …
