Nana Patole resigns as Maharashtra assembly speaker

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole on Thursday has resigned and soon will be made the Maharashtra Congress chief. Patole is likely to hand over his resignation to deputy speaker after which a formal announcement will soon be made by party’s central leadership from Delhi.

Patole has resigned as Speaker of the Assembly. Nana Patole himself has informed the media that he has tendered his resignation to the state assembly vice-president. It is learned that after the resignation of Nana Patole, his name has been finalized for the post of Congress state president.

"Our senior leaders have ordered me to resign as the Speaker of the Assembly. I have complied with that and handed over my resignation to the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly," Nana Patole said. When asked about the new responsibility, Nana Patole said he has no knowledge about the new responsibilities. "I have only received orders from the high command to resign as the Speaker of the Assembly. I have only complied with them," Patole said.

Patole began as a Congress leader but later shifted to the BJP. He was elected as BJP MP in 2014 from the Bhandara-Gondia constituency but later quit the party by criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and returned to the Congress. He was elected to the state assembly in 2019 and was made Speaker when the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) formed the government.