Kerala Women's Commission caught up with fresh new allegation over member's PhD degree

Thiruvananthapuram: After being embroiled in controversies over the past few weeks, the Kerala Women's Commission is now caught up with fresh new allegations over one of its member's PhD degree, which is alleged to be 'fake' and complaints have now started to come.

The educational qualification of its member Shahida Kamal, who claims to have a PhD, was found not true and in a TV channel debate, a female in the capital city pointed out that Kamal has not even passed graduation.

A complaint against her educational qualifications is now lying with the Kerala Police and Kamal said she will tell the police everything.

Incidentally, Kamal was a Congress leader and had contested the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Kasargode and also the 2011 assembly elections too, on a Congress ticket.

But, upset with the Congress for not giving her a safe seat, she quit the party a few years later and joined the CPI-M and they rewarded her by making her a member of the women's commission, which comes with good perks.

Soon after trouble broke out over her educational qualifications, she through her Facebook account mentioned that she took her D.Litt from International Open University and all those who have received it use the word Dr before their names.

Meanwhile, the CPI-M leadership is reported to be unhappy over this episode and in all likelihood, the party might ask her to put in her papers.

It was only a few days back following an encore the chairperson of it, M.C. Josephine had to quit for her curt remarks made to a hapless female who called her on a live TV programme, seeking solace as she was being harassed by the family of her husband demanding more dowry.

The ex chairperson was also accused by the olympian Mayookha Johny of playing foul and saving her friend's rapist.