Nana Patole
MUMBAI: A day after his meeting with Rahul Gandhi, Maharashtra assembly Speaker Nana Patole submitted his resignation to deputy speaker Narwari Zirwal on Thursday. The 57-year-old Patole is set to be soon appointed as the state Congress president in place of Balasaheb Thorat, who had offered to quit a month ago in keeping with the Congress party s policy of one man, one post .
Patole s decision appears to have created a rift among the MVA partners on who will be the new speaker. While Thorat took the view that a Congress nominee will be the new speaker, the architect of the MVA, NCP president Sharad Pawar, said a discussion on the matter was essential. We will discuss and then take a decision, Pawar said. Patole declined to comment on Pawar s suggestion, saying he was a senior leader of the alliance.
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.
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.
Legislature sources said Patole handed over his resignation to deputy speaker Narhari Zhirwal.
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MUMBAI: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Nana Patole, tipped to be the next chief of the state unit of the Congress, resigned from his post on Thursday.
Legislature sources said Patole handed over his resignation to deputy speaker Narhari Zhirwal.
Patole, the MLA from Sakoli in Bhandara district, is likely to replace revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat as state Congress president soon, according to party sources.
The Congress shares power with the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra.
A delegation of Congress ministers, headed by Thorat, had recently met the party leadership in Delhi.
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Maharashtra Legislative Assembly speaker Nana Patole on Thursday submitted his resignation to deputy speaker Narhari Zirwal. This move comes after Patole s meeting with the central leadership on Wednesday.
The 57-year-old, who was elected to the state assembly in 2019, is likely to be appointed as Maharashtra Congress president replacing Balasaheb Thorat, who is also the Revenue Minister in Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray s Cabinet.
Zirwal on Thursday evening took to Twitter and posted a picture of him accepting Patole s resignation.
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