Nana Patole has reportedly tendered his resignation as the Maharashtra Congress President following Maha Vikas Aghadi’s (MVA) defeat in the recently concluded assembly polls. The incumbent Mahayuti registered a comprehensive win in the Maharashtra elections, securing 235 seats and 49.6 percent of the vote share, leaving the MVA far behind at 49 seats and 35.3 per cent of the votes.
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Nana Patole, however, couldn’t meet Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Monday, sources said, adding that his resignation hasn’t been accepted by the party high command yet.
Congress were handed a beating by the ruling NDA in Maharashtra as the party won just 16 seats out of the 103 seats it contested. Nana Patole, who was fielded by the party from the Sakoli seat, won the seat by the slimmest of margins, by 208 votes.
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His victory in Sakoli ranks in the top three of the seats won by the slimmest margins this year. This is in stark contrast to the 2019 assembly elections, when Nana Patole won in Sakoli by a healthy margin of nearly 8,000 votes.
While Congress managed just 16 seats, the BJP, on the other hand, dominated and won 132 seats. The opposition, however, has accused the BJP EVM manipulation to achieve the result in the state.
Several opposition leaders, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, expressed shock over the result, stating it was surprising to see the NDA win in Maharashtra despite not having addressed any major issues.
