BJP Maharashtra leader Nana Patole announced on Friday that he had resigned from the Lok Sabha and quit the party too.
Patole, elected from Bhandara-Gondiya, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and also the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership.
This comes a day of ahead of the first round of the Gujarat Assembly polls.
--IANS
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