BJP leader Narayan Rane on Saturday took a dig at the Congress saying that it cannot become number one party in the state and at the national level in the near future. His statement comes a day after the Congress's newly- appointed Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole said that bringing the party back on top in the state was his priority.

Talking to reporters at Kankavli in coastal Sindhudurg district, Rane who was in the Congress before joining the BJP, said Patole did not tell how much time it would take for him to make his party number one again.