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Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole resigns, likely to be next state Congress Chief

Patole is likely to be announced as the next Maharashtra Congress chief. Currently, the revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat is the state Congress president. According to the party leaders, Patole wanted to be made a minister in the MVA government too.

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole resigns, likely to be next state Congress Chief
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On Thursday, February 4, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole stepped down from his post, handing over his resignation letter to Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal.

Patole is likely to be announced as the next Maharashtra Congress chief. Currently, the revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat is the state Congress president.

A delegation of Congress ministers, headed by Balasaheb Thorat, had recently met the party leadership in Delhi. Patole had also met former party chief Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. His name had been doing the rounds for the post of the state Congress president and he had been lobbying for a meaty portfolio as well.

Patole hails from Vidarbha region and has influence in the peasant Kunbi community. In several parts of the region, the community supported Congress in the 2019 assembly elections. Patole began as a Congress leader but later shifted to the BJP. He was elected as BJP MP in 2014 from the Bhandara-Gondia constituency but later quit the party by criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and returned to the Congress. He was elected to the state assembly in 2019 and was made Speaker when the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) formed the government.

According to the party leaders, Patole wanted to be made a minister in the MVA government along with the state Congress president but his request was turned down.

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