Heads have began rolling in Maharashtra after the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi took an enormous drubbing within the Assembly polls outcomes declared Saturday. State Congress chief Nana Patole has stepped down after the primary Opposition occasion gained simply 16 out of the 103 seats it contested. Mr Patole barely scraped by means of in Sakoli with a margin of simply 208 votes.
Mr Patole, a former MP, took cost of Maharashtra Congress in 2021 when he changed Balasaheb Thorat. Under his management, the Congress posted a surprising efficiency within the Lok Sabha election earlier this 12 months, successful 13 out of 17 seats it contested. Scoring the best amongst all Maha Vikas Aghadi allies, the Congress underneath Mr Patole bargained onerous throughout seat-sharing talks forward of the Assembly election. This led to friction between Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharad Pawar). At one level, there have been studies that Team Thackeray had refused to carry seat-sharing talks if Mr Patole was concerned.