NCP workers blacken the face of the person who made Pawar’s ‘fake OBC certificate’
Pune: On Saturday, activists inspired by the Congress National Party jumped on and embraced the face of Namdeo Jadhav, who had presented a certificate declaring that the NCP chief, Sharad Pawar, belonged to the caste OBC.
Jadhav had come to attend a meeting in an auditorium here when a large group of NCP (SP) workers attacked him while one of them covered his face with black ink, even as a police agent approached to protect him from the assault.
Jadhav, who once said he was a close collaborator of the NCP and its key leaders, has turned into a severe critic of the party and its leadership, and recently provoked a controversy by showing a purported certificate printed in English granting the label of OBC caste to Sharad Pawar. a Maratha.
In fact, on 14 November, during a Diwali meeting in his native city, Baramati, Sharad Pawar clarified things and rejected the supposed certificate of the OBC. Given that the document issued by his old school was authentic and showed his caste as “Maratha”, and that he had never hidden this fact.
After the police raid on the part of PNC activists, Jadhav, furious, threatened to file a police complaint in which the first accused would be Sharad Pawar and the second would be his nephew and PNC (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar.
Indirectly supporting the incident, the general secretary of PNC, Jitendra Awhad, said in Mumbai that if some people (Jadhav) and then there were making blatantly false statements, the loyal supporters of Sharad Pawar would definitely be agitated.
Criticizing Jadhav’s comments, the PCN (SP) chief of Pune, Prashant Jagtap, said he assumed all responsibility for Saturday’s abuse episode and warned that Jadhav should not blame anyone else without any basis.
The local activists of the PNC labeled Jadhav as a “cachorro” of certain elements, who unnecessarily dragged Sharad Pawar, Rohit Pawar and other leaders into the battle of castes to discredit them.
Meanwhile, a Pune police official told the journalists that they were registering an FIR in the Jadhav case.
