Congress leader and former MLA Ashish Deshmukh has demanded the removal of MPCC president Nana Patole and written a letter to party chief Mallikarjun Kharge in this regard, saying the party's condition in Maharashtra was "alarming".

Deshmukh, a member the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC)'s Parliamentary Board, has blamed Patole for the rebellion by party's youth leader Satyajit Tambe, who has filed his nomination as an independent from the Nashik division graduates' constituency for the January 30 biennial elections to the Legislature Council.