Congress party on Friday appointed Congress MLA Balasaheb Thorat as the leader of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) while another MLA Vijay Wadettiwar has been appointed as leader of the lower house so he will be the leader of the opposition (LoP) for Congress party.
Thorat has been appointed in place of former CLP Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil. Patil was asked to resign from the post of LoP recently after his son Sujay Vikhe Patil joined the BJP and even Vikhe Patil campaigned for his son in the preceding Lok Sabha polls. Sources in Congress told DNA that Thorat and Wadettiwar were vying for the LoP post but Maharashtra Congress president favoured Wadettiwar while Thorat was made CLP leader of Congress party.