Newly elected state Congress president Nana Patole on Friday formally accepted the post from outgoing state party chief Balasaheb Thorat in Mumbai.
Last week Congress President Sonia Gandhi appointed former Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Patole as the new Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President.
He replaced senior leader and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat who became the MPCC President after the former chief Ashok Chavan quit following the party's debacle in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Besides Patole, the Congress has also named 6 Working Presidents, 10 Vice-Presidents and a jumbo 37-member Parliamentary Board in a widespread reshuffle.
The new Working Presidents include senior leaders such as Shivajirao Moghe, Basavaraj Patil, M. Arif Naseem Khan, Kunal Rohidas Patil, Chandrakant Handore and Pranati Sushilkumar Shinde.
Against them, four of the five previous Working Presidents - Dr. Nitin Raut, Yashomati Thakur, Muzaffar Hussain and Vishwajeet Kadam - were dropped though Basavaraj Patil has been retained, but all have been accommodated in the new Parliamentary Board.
The new Vice-Presidents appointed are: Shirish Madhukarrao Chaudhari, Ramesh A. Bagwe, Hussain Dalwai, Mohan Joshi, Ranjit P. Kamble, Kailash K. Gorantyal, B. I. Nagrale, Sharad Aher, M. M. Shaikh and Manik M. Jagtap.