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Nana Patole | Nana Patole replaces Balasaheb Thorat as President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee

Updated Feb 05, 2021 | 15:48 IST Nana Patole has been appointed as the President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee a day after he resigned from the post of the Assembly Speaker. Nana Patole  |  Photo Credit: ANI Mumbai: Nana Patole has been appointed as the President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. Patole had resigned from the post of the Assembly Speaker on Thursday and said that the party high command had asked him to do so. The high command of the party asked me to resign from the post. I obeyed them, Patole said. The Sakoli MLA had quit the BJP to join the Congress party in 2017. He was made the Speaker of Maharashtra s Legislative Assembly after the Maha Vikas Aghadi came to power in 2019 after the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance failed to form a government due to disagreement over the Chief Minister post.

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole steps down from his post

File photo of Congress leader Nana Patole. | PTI Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole on Thursday stepped down from his post, handing over his resignation to Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, reported India Today. After stepping down from the post, Patole told his supporters that their connection will remain strong. “As an MLA I will continue to work and will follow orders,” he said. “Until, the new Speaker is chosen, the deputy speaker will continue to work.” Unidentified Congress members told News18 that Patole, an MLA from Sakoli in Bhandara district, was all likely to replace Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat as the chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. A delegation of Congress ministers, led by Thorat, had recently met the party leadership in Delhi. Patole had also met Rahul Gandhi in the national Capital.

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