Nana Patole appointed Congress state president; new responsibilities to Praniti Shinde, Naseem Khan

The discussion on reshuffle that has been going on in the Congress for the last few days has finally come to an end. Nana Patole has been elected as the State President of the Congress. An official announcement has been made by the Congress High Command in this regard. Along with the state president, 6 executive presidents of the Congress have also been appointed. Nana Patole had resigned as the Speaker of the Assembly on Thursday, after which the announcement was made today.

Shivaji Moghe, Basavaraj Patil, Mohammad Arif Naseem Khan, Kunal Patil, Chandrakant Handore and MLA Praniti Shinde have been appointed as the working presidents of Congress. 

Shirish Chaudhary, Ramesh Bagwe, Hussain Dalwai, Mohan Joshi, Ranjit Kamble, Kailas Gonratyal, BL Nagarale, Sharad Aher, MM Shaik, Manikrao Jagtap have been appointed as the Vice president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress.

The Congress has got an aggressive state president in the form of Nana Patole and the demand for Vidarbha state president has also been met. But now it will be itneresting to see who will be appointed as the Speaker of the Assembly. There are talks in the political circles that the Congress is all set to take up the post of Deputy Chief Minister and drop its claim for the post of Speaker of the Assembly.

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