Nana Patole files nomination for MCA chief election

Congress leader Nana Patole has filed a nomination for the July 23 election for the Mumbai Cricket Association MCA chief sources close to him said reported the PTIAccording to the PTI Nana Patoles nomination was however submitted after the deadline ended at 5 pm on Tuesday and it was not clear whether it would be accepted or not they addedEarlier Mazgaon Cricket Club in the city appointed Nana Patole who heads the Maharashtra Congress as its representative in the MCA sparking off speculation that he might contest the electionThe post of MCA president became vacant following the death of incumbent chief Amol Kale last monthNana Patole in a post on X on Wednesday thanked the Mazgaon Cricket Club for giving him the opportunity to represent it in the MCAI assure that I will make genuine efforts to work for the welfare of young players coming from ordinary backgrounds he said according to the PTIIn the past senior Maharashtra politicians including Prithviraj Chavan and late Vilasrao Deshmukh and Gopinath Munde have represented the club at the MCACongress to ensure representation to all social components in upcoming assembly polls ChennithalaAICC incharge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday said the party will make efforts to ensure that all social components get a representation in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls reported the PTIAddressing party workers here he said the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA have registered a resounding victory in the recentlyheld Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra and urged them to work in the same way at the district taluka and booth levels to remove the corrupt Mahayuti government in the state and bring the MVA to powerIn the Lok Sabha elections 2024 the Congress won 13 seats in Maharashtra a big jump from the solitary seat it won in 2019 while its ally Shiv Sena UBT bagged nine and the NCP SP eightAssembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in the next few monthsThe Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committees cell and departments felicitated Chennithala and state president Nana Patole for the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections under their leadership The event was held at the Shivaji Mandir in DadarSpeaking on the occasion Patole said various cells and departments of the state Congress played an important role in the partys massive victory in the parliamentary polls in the stateAll of them went from village to village in the state to spread the Congress ideology and also distributed the letter of Congress five Nyayas with 25 guarantees Although the Lok Sabha battle has been won the struggle is not yet over he said as he called upon the party cadre to work towards its success in the assembly pollswith PTI inputs