Deesa : Spellings have been the bugbear of the best among us but one is expected to spell a simple word like elephant. But for Gujarat minister Shankar Chaudhary even an innocuous school visit turned out to be extremely embarrassing when he ended up misspelling one of the most common words in the English language. In images that have sprouted on social media, the minister is seen pointing at the blackboard after writing “E-L-E-P-H-E-N-T,” reports NDTV.
As the faux pas threatened to acquire alarming proportions on social media – the BJP lawmaker even trended on Twitter — the minister claimed that it was a teaching ploy and that he was testing the students and wanted to see if anyone could spot the error.
That may not sound too convincing but his party BJP too is insisting that he was trying to explain to students how certain words are spelt and pronounced differently.
Chaudhary, the minister in charge of urban housing, transport and health, was earlier taken to court by an activist who alleged that his MBA degree was fake; likewise, in 2012, he was accused of surfing obscene sites on his iPad inside the Gujarat assembly, a charge that he stoutly denied. A forensic lab later said no offensive content had been found on his iPad, adds NDTV.
