"Are These Issues? Focus On Important Things": Sharad Pawar On Degree Row

Sharad Pawar said matters like unemployment, law and order and inflation need attention and leaders may do well to desist from going after issues that can wait or are even non-issues

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has criticised those who have been raising the issue of educational qualification of leaders as wasting time on matters that can wait, while the country faces more critical issues that need attention.

Several opposition leaders in the centre including Uddhav Thackeray and Arvind Kejriwal have taken a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his college degrees.

Mr Kejriwal was fined Rs 25,000 by the Gujarat High Court for bringing up the matter when the information was already available in the public domain, while Mr Thackeray had asked "which college doesn't want to come out to feel proud of the fact that their college is where the Prime Minister studied".

Mr Pawar, while responding to a question to reporters on Sunday, said matters like unemployment, law and order and inflation need attention and leaders may do well to desist from going after issues that can wait or are even non-issues.