Independent Maharashtra MP meets Congress brass, extends support

Vishal Patil, the newly-elected independent MP from Maharashtra’s Sangli Lok Sabha constituency, on Thursday extended his support to the Congress.

Patil is the grandson of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vasantdada Patil and a former Congress leader. He contested the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate after the Sangli seat was allotted to the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) in the seat-sharing arrangement with Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi.

The alliance in the state primarily includes former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).