Maharashtra Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat resigned on Tuesday as the state legislature party head, a day after his letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over apparent friction with state unit chief Nana Patole came out, party sources said.
It is believed that Thorat has sent his resignation to the party high command. The Congress leader is the maternal uncle of Satyajit Tambe who recently won the Legislative Council election as an independent candidate from the Nashik division graduates constituency. Thorat is a staunch Congress follower and loyalist and earlier has served the party’s state president apart from holding many key ministerial portfolios.
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An aide of Thorat had said that the Congress leader had written to the party high command citing his inability to work with Patole due to the latter's "anger" towards him.The matter surfaced days after then Nashik graduates constituency MLC Sudhir Tambe and Thorat's brother-in-law declined to contest despite being the Congress' official candidate. His son Satyajit Tambe then fought as an independent and won the election, results of which were announced on February 2.