Certificate showing Sharad Pawar as OBC is fake: NCP faction

The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) faction on Monday dismissed as “fake” a copy of the NCP chief’s caste certificate which has gone viral. Mr. Pawar is shown as belonging to the other backward class (OBC).

NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) state chief Jayant Patil called the move a ploy to defame Pawar and mislead the public about the 82-year-old Mr. Pawar, while MP Supriya Sule (Mr. Pawar’s daughter), said it was an immature attempt to tarnish her father’s image.

Noting that the phoney certificate was in English, Ms. Sule said when her father was studying in class 10, there were no English medium schools in the area.