jaipur home minister gulab chand kataria on friday said the introduction of minimum education qualification to contest panchayat elections has ensured the defeat of congress halfway kataria who is spearheading the bjp campaign for panchayat polls alleged that the congress had ulterior motives behind opposing the education criterion the congress never let the education level in rural areas to rise simply because it was deriving political benefits from the situation congress wanted the rural populace to remain uneducated so that it can continue to mislead them kataria said while speaking to reporters at the bjp headquarters he added by introducing the minimum education qualification criterion 50 defeat of the congress has been ensured by us the remaining 50 defeat will be inflicted by the people in the elections congress state president sachin pilot equated the ministers remarks to an act of frustration