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Nana Patole named new Maharashtra Congress President Last Updated : 05 Feb 2021 05:14:48 PM IST Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole In a major rejig, the Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday appointed former Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole as the new Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President, an announcement said here.
He replaces senior leader and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat who became the MPCC President after the former chief Ashok Chavan quit following the party's debacle in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.The appointment of Patole, 57, came a day after he resigned as the Assembly Speaker on Thursday evening and IANS had correctly indicated that he would be heading the state unit.Besides Patole, the Congress has also named 6 Working Presidents, 10 Vice-Presidents and a jumbo 37-member Parliamentary Board in a widespread reshuffle.The new Working Presidents include senior leaders such as Shivajirao Moghe, Basavaraj Patil, M. Arif Naseem Khan, Kunal Rohidas Patil, Chandrakant Handore and Pranati Sushilkumar Shinde.Against them, four of the five previous Working Presidents - Dr. Nitin Raut, Yashomati Thakur, Muzaffar Hussain and Vishwajeet Kadam - were dropped though Basavaraj Patil has been retained, but all have been accommodated in the new Parliamentary Board.The new Vice-Presidents appointed are: Shirish Madhukarrao Chaudhari, Ramesh A. Bagwe, Hussain Dalwai, Mohan Joshi, Ranjit P. Kamble, Kailash K. Gorantyal, B. I. Nagrale, Sharad Aher, M. M. Shaikh and Manik M. Jagtap.A 4-time legislator from Sakoli in Bhandara district, Patole had a chequered political career, Patole was a Congress MLA for 3 consecutive terms - from 1999-2014 - before he left the party to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket, he emerged as a 'giant-killer' by defeating Nationalist Congress Party senior leader Praful Patel, who is a close confidant of NCP President Sharad Pawar.Popular as 'Nana Bhau', in late-2017 the aggressive Patole shot into limelight when he was the first leader to come out in open revolt against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Later, he resigned from his parliamentary seat Bhandara-Gondiya, quit the BJP and then did a 'ghar-wapasi' with his former party, Congress.However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he was trounced from the prestigious Nagpur constituency by Vidarbha BJP stalwart and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.The Chairman of All India Kisan Congress (AIKC), Patole contested and won the Sakoli seat to enter the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Oct. 2019.Subsequently, he was elected as the Assembly Speaker after the MVA government of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress took office in Nov. 2019, and was in the august post for nearly 14 months.IANS Mumbai For Latest Updates Please-
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