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Chandrakant Patil has been appointed as the new chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Maharashtra unit.
Patil, a Cabinet Minister in the state government, replaces Raosaheb Danve, who resigned from the post earlier in the day.
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The development comes months ahead of the Maharashtra assembly polls.
Danve was made a Minister of State (MoS) of Consumer Affairs in the Union Cabinet earlier in May.
According to reports, the BJP has a ‘one-person, one-post’ principle, wherein a minister cannot be state president at the same time.
While MPs and legislators can simultaneously hold organisational posts, the report states that the party rarely allows a person to hold a government and party post together.
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