India: Politician wears 130,000-pound, 4kg gold shirt for his birthday...

Indian politician, Pankaj Parakh, celebrated his 45th birthday in grand style by adorning a 4kg, 130,000-pound, custom-made, 18-22 carat gold shirt on Friday (8 August).

The politician, who quit high school in Grade 8 and made a fortune out of a garment business, said gold has always mesmerized him.

"Gold has always fascinated me since I was five years old and studying in school. Over the years, I have become passionate about this royal metal. I have got this special shirt stitched to mark my 45th birthday this Friday," said Parakh, as reported by NDTV News.

The gold-laden shirt has been designed in Nashik, a city in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. The jewels were added on in Mumbai by a team of 20 select craftsmen, who laboured over the last two months, putting in a total of 3,200 hours to bring the project to completion.

The politican's penchant for gold played out at his big day too. Full story...

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