Narayan Rane is a disappointed and enraged person today. He has missed out on a post which he was staring at for the last two and half years. After Ashok Chavan was given the chief ministership, Rane hit out at Congress leadership.

On Friday, Rane slammed the Congress party for delaying its decision in choosing Vilasrao Deshmukh's successor. Targetting congress president, Sonia Gandhi and ousted chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, he had put a question mark on Chavan’s stature saying that Chavan was not worthy of his competition. He also said that Chavan did not have the experience to be the chief minister of a state.

Congress leadership retaliated today by suspending Rane from the party’s membership. "It has been observed that after the announcement of the new leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Maharashtra, Narayan Rane is making public statements deliberately with a view to lowering the prestige of the Indian National Congress," said AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi.

"The party has taken a serious view of his utterances and considering this as a case of gross indiscipline, Narayan Rane has been suspended from the party with immediate effect," he added.

This however has not dettered Rane as he has dared Congress of exposing more and more scams. According to PTI, Rane claimed that he holds key to the survival of soon-to-be-formed Ashok Chavan led Congress-Nationalist Cognress Party Government in Maharashtra.
"If I wish, I can prevent the new government from taking charge or topple it when it is formed. The new government is not in a majority and I can prove it on the floor of the house, even if the opposition does not demand a trust vote," Rane was seen saying this on various TV channels.

Rane refused to divulge his future course of action when the winter session of the legislature would be convened in Nagpur this month. "I will be going to Nagpur," he said. He said he could provide a letter of 30 MLAs to the Governor saying that they were not supporting the new government.

Referring to his suspension from the Congress, Rane said he had been expecting the action.

"I consider this as a good omen. In 1997, Vilasrao Deshmukh was suspended from the party for six years and in 1999 he became the chief minister," Rane added.