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Congress Likely to Replace Nana Patole
The Statesman Siliguri
|February 12, 2025
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole met Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Monday and sources have indicated that the Congress is likely to replace Patole as Maharashtra Congress chief with a younger face, taking election-related caste arithmetic into consideration.
According to Congress sources, Congress MLA and former minister Amit Deshmukh, MLC Satej Patil, former minister Nitin Raut and a few other names are being considered for the post of Maharashtra Congress president.
This story is from the February 12, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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