Maharashtra Elections : Congress has taken a big action before the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The Congress party has suspended six rebel leaders. All these candidates were contesting elections against the official candidates of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance. The party has suspended them for six years. Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said on Thursday that all the rebels of the party contesting elections against the official candidates of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance have been suspended for six years.

According to Chennithala, the district units have been asked to prepare a list of all the rebels who are still in the fray for the assembly elections to be held on November 20. "There will be no friendly contest. All the candidates contesting against the official candidates of the MVA have been suspended (from the party)," Chennithala, the Congress' Maharashtra in-charge, said at a press conference here. The opposition MVA comprises the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).

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Chennithala said that Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as well as the chief ministers of Karnataka and Telangana will campaign for the MVA candidates. Kharge will be in Maharashtra for five days from November 13. While Rahul Gandhi will campaign on November 12, 14, and 16, Priyanka Vadra will seek votes for the MVA on November 13, 16, and 17.