No, "I am not DR ASHWIN RAJ". MIDA chairman clarifies to Fijileaks that mistake was on the part of PACMAS who developed the programme: 'Please note that I do not have a PhD and I hope this clarifies the matter'

25/4/2016

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Fijileaks: We sought clarification from Raj after we were inundated with requests to clarify if he had become Dr Raj; we appreciate his response; please also be informed that we are not approving some of your vile comments against Raj, which has nothing to do with his clarification!

WATCHDOGS OR SLEEPY DOGS? Surely, a sudden change in title should have pricked the journalists grey matter; after all they have been dealing with MR Raj as MIDA boss for many years now!
We do not know if Raj himself had clarified or had pointed out to them the PACMAS cock-up (ironically, [PACMAS] was spending thousands of dollars to drill into journalists to report accurately) when he [Raj] rose to
lecture on "Media & Parliament"?

JOURNALISTS FAILED TO CHASE UP THE TITLE DR. ABC's Steve Chase conducting the media workshop

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Sam

25/4/2016 12:38:17 pm

Did this aswin fellow also not say not long ago that he quit PHD because no one could teach him?

Injustìce

25/4/2016 12:50:21 pm

Two people who doesnt have Phd or MBBS degree prefer using Dr. Infront of their name. Both are retarded and have lost their dignity and respect by being ASK lapdog. Guess who????? Correct they are Arsewin Raj and Chiko Luveni. LoL what a hypocracy stealing the word doctor when they cant become one. Exactly like their leader who butako FFP name. Any guess who?????

Samjha

25/4/2016 01:07:37 pm

Masterclass training for journalists.
A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline.
When did Ashwin Raj become an expert in this discipline?
After he was installed as MIDA chairman by the Fijian dictatorship?

To be or not to be DR?

25/4/2016 01:21:35 pm

We accept his explanation, and we are also grateful to Fijileaks for obtaining a comment from him - which is a first on his part.

But, maybe, after the Paratha story, he can't eat his way out.

What baffles me is this - when he spoke - he saw he was LISTED as DR Ashwin Raj

Did he inform the gathering, including the media, that he was not a Dr and that PACMAS had conferred the TITLE on him, so please ignore it.

Unless he allowed it, for Fiji Times addressed him in that photo caption as Dr.

So, who to believe or is it Fijileaks caught him out?

Vinaka

Cat and mouse

25/4/2016 01:26:37 pm

Victor the cat smelt a rat and pounced. Ashwin 'rat' Raj exposed as a fake dr. Great job as usual victor.
If not for you the charade would have carried on.

Bowing to the Doctor

25/4/2016 07:05:36 pm

Charade, what?

For a couple of days we have been greeting him as follow,

"Morning, Dr Raj"

A king for the day!

Dekho

25/4/2016 10:32:04 pm

Look there are a lot of people in possession of the genuine title of Dr having completed a PhD but it is not uncommon to find them talking shit if not talking stupid. Worse still many can be morally bankrupt.
So for me whether Ashwin Raj allowed himself the use of a fictitious Dr title is no big deal. He is after all a lackey of the Fijian dictatorship . The dictatorship entrenched itself in power through lies and deceit. Why won't a regime lackey engage in that as well?

Injustice

25/4/2016 11:01:36 pm

There are only two people in Fiji who are fond of using Dr title and both of these people are not bestowed with this title. Both of them are depicting the message of their saviour ASK whose values are based on lies, and deceit. Like father like son

Pita

25/4/2016 11:13:43 pm

Ethically,l and morally the dentist speaker of Parliament, Dr Tiko Luveni with only a Diploma and Ashwin Raj, who holds a Masters Degree, are not entitled to use or be called by the title Doctor. It only goes to show the low standards our media has descended to that the titles still appear in the print media and on our air waves. Ashwin Raj came out to Fiji Leaks to correct the error. Tiko Luveni should do the right thing and publically declare the misnomer.
But I know she won't because our public system has become decrepit with no ethical and moral foundation. As a younger idealistic student Aitaz Khaiyum can hurl criticism at the Fijian Council of Chiefs and the Fiji Muslim League, years later as Chief Legal aid fiver of the land he selectively applies the virtues that undergird his profession to allow deception n the use of titles by no less than the holder of the high office of speaker of our nation's Parliament.

Rajend Naidu

26/4/2016 12:20:47 am

Editor,
A Real Dr.
In an email from the White House headed ' How we're working to make education a reality for all American' (26/4) Dr Jill Biden tells " Education is my life's work. When the President and Vice President were elected to the White House in 2008, I told my husband Joe that I wanted to continue teaching. Nearly eight years later, here I am - still teaching English full-time at a community college in northern Virginia..."
Now that's what you call a real Dr. A true expert in her discipline - education - dedicated to her vocation.
She was not allowed power to get to her head and make her strut about like some people we know.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Pretender

26/4/2016 09:48:01 am

Good work Victor. As Pita says, ethically and morally Mr Raj is not entitled to us Dr. He wants the honorific without doing the required work. Never mind his feeble excuses. By not correcting the error mmediately, he perpetuated the falsehood.

He talks a lot about media standards. Please ask him whether as MIDA boss he clarified to the fiji times and fiji sun that he is not 'Dr' and make a correction. As MIDA boss he should have done the right thing and issued a retraction without being reminded. But he did not. He was preaching about ethics and accuracy but didn't not set an example by doing he ethical thing himself.

People of fiji who read the Fiji times are being deceived. Fiji times needs to make a correction. If mr Raj is really concerned about ethics and accuracy he should send out a media statement in his capacity MIDA boss setting the record straight. Otherwise he has no moral right to preach about media ethics. In fact after this incident he does not have the moral authority to be MIDA boss.

This is no small matter. In any country where the rule of law prevails he would be forced to resign but in bainimarma's animal farm he is still free to pontificate about media ethics. If Mr Raj won't retract, than fiji times needs to issue a correction because many readers still think mr raj is dr raj. Hope you can write to fiji times if raj doesn't take the initiative Victor.

Socho

26/4/2016 09:55:35 am

Yes we know you are NOT Dr Ashwin Raj. ( somehow the yellow media in Fiji didn't ). We also know what you are. You are regime lackey installed as media gestapo to keep the media in Fiji in line.
Your pronouncements about free and independent journalism is hogwash.

Charlatan

26/4/2016 10:31:30 am

Victor Lal you are Ashwin Raj's worst nightmare. You have a good measure of this charlatan and bullshit artist. He must be scared shit of you and Fijileaks. He will think twice before pulling off any such stunts in future.

Saki

26/4/2016 10:39:21 am

Is it for real that our parliament speaker does not qualify for that title?

Sychophant

26/4/2016 02:21:58 pm

As MIDA boss Ashwin Raj was handpicked by the regime as guardian of the obnoxious media decree as he is very pliable. He tries to camoflage the decrees draconian nature with his diversionary tactics such as lecturing about impartiality and so forth. He is nothing but a phoney spin doctor bankrolled by the regime and under its complete control.

And

26/4/2016 07:13:07 pm

You can't get a more succinct profile of this Bainimarama regime lackey and henchman than this.

26/4/2016 08:12:19 pm

Did this phoney not claim not long ago that he was a Marxist and that no one at Australian university could teach him and that one marxist professor in Hawaii was his mentor, which the professor later denied? Crooked people come in all shapes, sizes and shades.

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