After a crushing defeat in the Maharashtra assembly elections, the Congress has made a major reshuffle in the party organization. Nana Patole has been removed from the post of president, and former MLA Harshvardhan Sapkal has been appointed as the new president of the state unit. According to a release issued by Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Harshvardhan Sapkal. 57 -year -old Sapkal has been a Congress MLA from Buldhana from 2014 to 2019 and is considered close to Rahul Gandhi.
Harshvardhan Sapkal was accused of creating a ruckus during the budget session in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on 22 March 2017, the then Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar of stopping the budget speech and tearing a copy of the budget. Due to this, he was suspended from Maharashtra Legislative Assembly till 31 December. At the time of the incident, 19 MLAs were suspended, including 9 Congress and 10 NCP MLAs.
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Apart from this, the Congress has once again appointed its senior leader Vijay Vadettiwar in Maharashtra as the leader of the Legislature Party. In the Maharashtra assembly elections held in November last year, the Congress won only 16 seats despite contesting 101 seats, which is the party’s worst performance in the state so far.
After Nana Patole’s offer to resign as the president, the Congress started the process of organizational change. However, the party then decided to keep him in office. Now the party has appointed Harshvardhan Sapkal as his successor.
