R R Patil quits, Deshmukh offers to step down too
Union Ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Prithviraj Chavan are the front runners to replace Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh who offered to resign on Monday soon after accepting the resignation of his Deputy RR Patil.
While the Congress high command was said to be keen on Chavan, the NCP, the party’s coalition partner in the state has reservations about his candidature. These reservations do not reportedly extend to Shinde, a dalit leader who had replaced Deshmukh as CM in 2003.
Soon after Deshmukh announced his resignation, Shinde met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who later held consultations stretching late into Monday night with her Political Secretary Ahmed Patel, Home Minister P Chidambaram, and Defence Minister and in charge of party affairs in Maharashtra A K Antony.
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While the Congress high command was said to be keen on Chavan, the NCP, the party’s coalition partner in the state has reservations about his candidature. These reservations do not reportedly extend to Shinde, a dalit leader who had replaced Deshmukh as CM in 2003.
Soon after Deshmukh announced his resignation, Shinde met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who later held consultations stretching late into Monday night with her Political Secretary Ahmed Patel, Home Minister P Chidambaram, and Defence Minister and in charge of party affairs in Maharashtra A K Antony.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit:
http://epaper.indianexpress.com/IE/IEH/2008/12/02/index.shtml
Labels: dalit votebank, meeting of MLAs and MLCs, NCP leader Praful Patel, President Sonia Gandhi, R R Patil quits, replace Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, resign, Union Ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde
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