For a school dropout, Pankaj Parakh is doing a little better than ok. A sign of his success - a shirt, made of pure gold, that weighs four kilos and costs 1.30 crores. Mr Parakh, who belongs to Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party, made his fortune through a garment business after quitting school in Class 8, and is a member of the municipal corporation of Yeloa, about 260 kms from Mumbai.
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