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Dr Tushar Shewale and Shyam Sonar, the Congress presidents of Nashik and Dhule districts, respectively, said they resigned because the party fielded ‘an outsider’, Dr Shobha Bachhav.
Exuding confidence in the wake of recent ‘mass defection’ of leaders and corporators from Congress, Prasad Hiray said the party will soon regain its lost ground in Malegaon and emerged stronger.
In a major jolt ahead of the upcoming elections, the ruling Congress was practically wiped out in the Malegaon Municipal Corporation with all 28 corporators including the Mayor defecting to the Nationalist Congress Party here on .
With the defection of party corporators to the NCP, the Congress meanwhile is searching for a new face to lead and rebuild the party in Malegaon - a Congress bastion for many decades.