The Congress on Saturday appointed senior party leader Balasaheb Thorat as president of the party’s Maharashtra unit, replacing former chief minister Ashok Chavan.
The party also appointed five working presidents – Nitin Raut, Baswaraj M Patil, Vishwajeet Kadam, Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur and Muzaffer Hussain. This comes ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra due later this year.
“The Hon’ble Congress President has approved the proposal of appointment of President, Working Presidents for the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee,” the letter issued by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal stated.
While KC Padavi has been appointed the leader of the legislative party.
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The party releases said that the appointments were made ‘with approval of Congress president’ but did not mention the name of Rahul Gandhi.
Gandhi has resigned owning responsibility for the party’s defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He also recently tweeted to confirm that he is no more the Congress president.
Earlier, Gandhi had resigned just two days the general elections result but the Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest making body, at its meeting in May had rejected his offer to step down.