'Don’t want to hide my caste,' says Sharad Pawar after ‘fake’ caste certificate goes viral

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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...

Pawars 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 Pawars daughter Supriya Sule dismissed the document, calling it as fake...

But I will do everything to resolve the issues of the community, Pawar said.. 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 sentiment of the younger generation about reservation for the Marathas is very intense and it cannot be ignored, but the power to take a decision in the matter rests with the state and the Centre, he said...

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