Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Nana Patole has resigned from the post of Maharashtra assembly speaker on Thursday, he handed over his resignation to Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal.
Patole, the MLA from Sakoli in Bhandara district, is likely to replace revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat as Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) chief soon, according to party sources.
The Congress shares power with the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra.
The budget session of the state legislature is to begin from March 1.