Nana Patole named Maharashtra Congress Vice-President

Former MP Nana Patole, who resigned from the BJP and returned to the Congress, was on Thursday made the Vice-President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee by party President Rahul Gandhi.

Patole, who had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, had defeated Nationalist Congress Party's Praful Patel on the Gondia-Bhandara seat.

Bhai Nagrale has been named General Secretary of the Maharashtra PCC.

--IANS

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