Don't want to hide my caste, haven't done politics using it, says Sharad Pawar

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BARAMATI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said he does not want to hide his caste and that he has never done politics using it as a medium..

Pawar's statement comes days after a purported certificate showing him as belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category went viral on social media...

NCP MP and Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule dismissed the document, calling it as fake..

Talking about quota for the Maratha community, the NCP founder said the power to grant reservation is under the ambit of the state and the central governments...

The state has been witnessing agitations over the issue of the Maratha reservation, with protests turning violent in some places recently.. (Catch all the Business News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.)..

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