"Collective leadership and leadership of Sonia Gandhi" has taken the party to lead in the assembly seats in the state, he added.
To a question whether Chavan could be the next Chief Minister of Maharastra, senior Congress leader Jayanti Natarajan told CNN-IBN that there were many eligible leaders and newly-elected MLAs with the guidelines of "high command" will decide who will be the CM.
"Senior party leaders will decide the next CM in Maharashtra," she added.