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Maharashtra: Lok Sabha MP who saved the Congress face in ’19 no more
Updated On: 31 May, 2023 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Suresh Dhanorkar’s untimely demise opens up the field for a Lok Sabha by-poll in Chandrapur even as Pune awaits its turn to fill the lower house vacancy after the death of BJP MP
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Suresh aka Balu Dhanorkar
Suresh Dhanorkar aka Balu Dhanorkar, the Congress’s lone Lok Sabha member from Maharashtra, passed away on Tuesday. His sudden demise has created yet another vacancy from Maharashtra; the first seat fell vacant following the death of BJP’s Pune MP Girish Bapat. There is a possibility of two by-polls soon. MP from Chandrapur in east Vidarbha, 47-year-old Dhanorkar was diagnosed with a kidney ailment last week, which was first treated in Nagpur. Later, he was shifted to a hospital in Delhi. Because of his illness, he could not attend the last rites of his father, who died on Saturday.
Dhanorkar is survived by his wife Pratibha, an MLA, and two sons. Dhanorkar shot to limelight after defeating the then union minister of state Hansraj Ahir and then for demanding to lift the ban on liquor in Chandrapur district. The leader, who began his career in the Shiv Sena, won the coal mine-dominated Warora-Bhadravati Assembly seat in 2014. But he resigned from the Shiv Sena and the Assembly ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to join the Congress.
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