Lok Sabha polls: Nana Patole to take on Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur

Mumbai: Former BJP MP Nana Patole will be Congress candidate from Nagpur against Union minister Nitin Gadkari in the Lok Sabha polls.

Patole's name is among the five candidates from Maharashtra announced Wednesday. Former ministers Sushilkumar Shinde and Milind Deora also figure in the Congress' first list of Lok Sabha candidates from the state released in Delhi. Shinde will contest from Solapur and Deora from South Mumbai seat. Former MP Priya Dutt will contest from Mumbai North Central, while Namdev Usendi from Gadchiroli Chimur Lok Sabha seat. Patole, who was the sitting MP from Bhandara-Gondia constituency when he quit the BJP to join the Congress, has been fielded against Gadkari in Nagpur. The screening committee of the Congress, headed by party's in-charge of Maharashtra Mallikarjun Kharge, finalised the candidates in Delhi, said party sources.