Pratigyaan

Sonia Gandhi recently re-took oath as an MP from Rae Bareilly. What struct me was that she said: ‘Main pratigyaan kartee hoon…’ - I promise…
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Isn’t this funny? A lady, supposedly running the nation behind the veil, having lived in the Hindi heartland for a quarter of a century, cannot read the Dewanaagari script. It is obvious now that she still reads Hindi written in the Roman script. That explains why the ‘pratijnaa’ became ‘pratigyaan’.
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For information, ‘jn’ used in words like ‘jnaana’, often incorrectly pronounced ‘gyaan’ (one of my school teachers called it janaanaa and we all used to laugh) is a mixture of ‘j’, the 8th and ‘n’, the tenth consonant in the Hindi language, both pronounced from the palate (taalu).
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It would still have been acceptable if she pronounced it ‘pratigyaa’ as most people in India do, assuming that she had limited scope for linguistic pursuits. But ‘pratigyaan’ - tch, tch.