"Race Starts Now": After Lok Sabha Success, Maharashtra Congress Sets Sights On Assembly Polls
NDTV
The Congress won 13 of Maharashtra's 48 Lok Sabha seats, emerging as the single-largest party in the state.
Three days after it stunned the BJP and the breakaway factions of the Shiv Sena and the NCP by emerging as the single largest party in Maharashtra in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has set its sights on the next target - the Assembly polls scheduled to be held around October.
"Your real race starts now. Keep raising important questions in Parliament and voice the worries of the people," Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole said at an event to felicitate the party's 13 new MPs from the state.
"We have important elections lined up in the future: zila parishad, gram panchayat, and the state assembly elections. Now it is time to work for those who worked to get you in power," he added.
