Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s string of official visits to foreign nations has been subject for thousands of memes and jokes among many of his detractors. Discussions and debates on the Prime Minister’s foreign visits continue to rage, while this new one from Kerala has literally made many wonderstruck!
Candidates who arrived in large numbers for a test scheduled to fill vacancies to the post of High Court Assistants this Sunday were in for something they never expected. The paper which had objective questions for 100 marks and descriptive ones for 40 marks found one of the queries lying in the heap of the “objective” type hard to digest.
The question went thus: Which among the following countries was not visited by Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India? The options provided were USA, Australia, UK and South Korea.
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For many, this question came as a clear rebuke to Prime Minster Modi’s visits to foreign nations that happen one after the other. Some of the candidates even voiced their unease towards including such a question, and termed the move as deliberately teasing the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, there were also candidates who did not find anything wrong with such a question.
The question, obviously, has sparked off a controversy and it is being said that the Kerala High Court is planning to kick off an investigation into the episode. While a probe might bring to light the real reason for the inclusion of the question for a test written by thousands of candidates, there are also many who wish to believe that it could have been just coincidental and not deliberately intended to tease the Prime Minister or his office.
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With the controversy set to climb on to social media space in a big way, all focus is now on the LBS Centre for Science and Technology, the institution that had been entrusted with conducting the examination. The LBS Centre for Science and Technology, interestingly, is an autonomous institution functioning under the Kerala government.
It now remains to be seen whether there was a funny motive behind the setting of this particular question or if the folly, if one may call it so, was not deliberate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits are indeed creating waves not just on overseas terrain, but in examination halls too!
