New Delhi, October 22: Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today appeared to be throwing his hat in the ring for Chief Ministership, saying there was no hard and fast rule in Congress that only an MLA could be elected to the post.
“There is no hard and fast rule in Congress that only an MLA could be the chief minister,” he told PTI.
Deshmukh, who was the second longest serving Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the late Vasantrao Naik, however, said that it was for the party MLAs and the high command to decide whether who should be the CM.
In reply to a question on whether he would like to complete his “unfulfilled task” as CM, he said it was for the high command to decide.
Deshmukh was replaced by Ashok Chavan as Chief Minister last year in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike.
–PTI