SOAS Student Union unanimously passes a motion to "condemn his statements" and disclose Varun Gandhi's degree-status [India Today].

Chief Election Commissioner says full recordings of speeches "much worse than what you heard on TV" [The Indian Express].

In the RSS/BJP, "middle class squeamishness" at Varun having fabricated his degrees [Jyoti Malhotra on Rediff].

Varun's fabricated degrees bring his integrity entirely into question [Shamshur R Khan on Newstrack India]

LSE-SOAS petition and Varun's fake degrees on the South Asian Journalists Association Forum.

Varun Gandhi "was never an LSE student and he does not have an LSE degree," says spokesperson [The Telegraph]

"Varun's bogus degrees shows a certain clutching at straws and wanting to be bigger than you are," says the veteran editor BG Verghese to Saba Naqvi [Outlook Magazine].

"Varun Gandhi was revealed to have done a Mamata Banerjee" [The Times of India].

"Varun told HC he has degrees from LSE, SOAS; the institutions say he does not": his fabricated degrees mean that Varun Gandhi may have perjured himself in the High Court at Allahabad [The Indian Express].

Mukul Kesavan's fine analysis of the linguistic status-politics behind Varun Gandhi's contradictions [The Telegraph].

"No fans for Varun Gandhi among alumni": the LSE-SOAS Statement is covered on NDTV.

Varun Gandhi is taken into arrest; tells an assembled crowd, "I have come here to boost the morale of my people, I believe in whatever I have said." [Reuters].

Varun Gandhi is "overwhelmed" at receiving the support of Bal Thackeray [Indian Express] - Thackeray is the only Indian politician to have been barred from contesting elections for hate-speech [BBC Online].

CNN-IBN reports with out-take from campaign recording on Youtube.