He further added the party leadership before coming to final decision is considering caste calculations.“There is the possibility that the OBC Nana Patole is likely to be replaced with a strong Maratha face. The reason is that the Maratha, Dalit, Muslim and tribal are the main vote base of the party in Maharashtra. All four communities decisively voted in favour of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, which resulted in the Congress winning 13 seats against one seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “”However in state polls, the majority chunk of this core voter base of Congress got divided and shifted to BJP while OBC in block voted BJP, therefore the Congress party lost the state polls badly. The Congress leadership is once again working on social engineering and caste combinations ahead of the local body elections,” said a senior Congress leader who requested anonymity.
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