Lucknow, August 14: Acting tough, the Indian Youth Congress has expelled Pankaj Tewari, its UP central zone chief who was handpicked by Rahul Gandhi in a talent hunt, after finding him “guilty” of faking his age to get the key post.
Acting on complaints that Pankaj Tewari had submitted a fake marksheet as age proof and was above the required 35 years of age, the Indian Youth Congress ordered an inquiry which found that the said document belonged to a girl from Gonda and expelled him yesterday.
Yogesh Dixit, in charge of state unit of the Youth Congress, said that a fax in this regard has been received from party General Secretary Virendra Singh Rathore stating that the party national executive has decided to remove and expel Pankaj Tewari from its membership and all other concerned organisational posts with immediate effect for “submitting a fake birth certificate”.
–PTI