Candidate For CM Post of Maharashtra & Decline of Ministership
After Controversial resignation of Chief Minister A R Antulay in 1982, Gulabrao Patil was leading & most able candidate of next Chief Minister of Maharashtra at that time as he was President of Maharashtra State Congress and close associate of Indira Gandhi. But at last moment his name was changed due to internal politics. Sooner in next government of Babasaheb Bhosale, Gulabrao Patil was offered Minister-ship which was a lower post than his designation a State Minister-ship, but he denied the Minister-ship, and famously said, Power without Prestige, is a Gun without Bullets. This historic statement made him more popular in entire Maharashtra State, as this showed that he was not greedy for power but a 'True Leader' dedicated for upliftment of society. After assassination of Indira Gandhi Gulabrao Patil supported Rajiv Gandhi at Central Politics. He severed as a loyal & honest Cooperative Leader & Congressman until he expired in Pune by a heart failure on 21 January 1989 at age of 67.
Read more about this topic: Gulabrao Patil
Famous quotes containing the words candidate, post and/or decline:
“The candidate tells us we are the “backbone of the State,” and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
“I don’t know.”
“How about a good cheap hotel?”
“I don’t know.”
“Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
“No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
—William Harmon (b. 1938)
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)