NEW DELHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani was on cloud 9 on Thursday not due to political reasons but her son scoring 91 per cent marks in the Class 12 CBSE examinations.
"Ok saying it out loud - proud of my son Zohr, not only did he come back with a bronze medal from the World Kempo Championship also scored well in 12 th boards. Best of 4 - 91%, special yahoo for 94% in economics. Maaf karna, today I'm just a gloating Mom," Irani tweeted.
The results for the Class 12 exams were announced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday.
Girls have outshone boys yet again with a pass percentage of 88.70 which is 9 percentage points more than that of boys' 79.40 per cent.