
News Analysis | Will Congress pick ‘experience’ over ‘emotion’ while choosing Maharashtra Rajya Sabha byelection candidate?
The Hindu
Local party leaders prefer veterans who can take on the BJP rather than rookie Pradnya Satav
The from post-COVID-19 complications in April this year has left a void in the party leadership at the national level as well as in Maharashtra.
Satav, a member of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), was considered a mainstay of his party in the State’s Vidarbha and Marathwada regions besides being a close aide of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
An able Youth Congress president, Satav was a good orator and as the general secretary in-charge of Gujarat election in 2017, the Congress had put up a spirited fight to emerge a creditable second, winning 77 to the 99 seats of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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