Riteish Deshmukh celebrates brother’s election victory from Maharashtra’s Latur

The newly elected Maharashtra
Assembly will get a pair of brothers , Amit Deshmukh and Dhiraj Deshmukh who
will carry forward the legacy of their father, late Vilasrao Deshmukh, a
two-time Congress chief minister.

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Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh,
son of the late former Maharashtra chief minister, took to Twitter on Thursday
to congratulate his brothers.

“We did it PAPPA!!! @AmitV_Deshmukh wins Latur (city) by 42000+ votes for the 3rd consecutive time. @MeDeshmukh wins Latur (rural) by 1,20,000 votes. Thank you people of Latur for this faith & trust,” he posted.

Dhiraj, who cut his political
teeth as a Zilla Parishad member in Latur, won the Latur Rural assembly seat by
a pretty good margin of 1.21 lakh votes.

His elder brother Amit was set to
retain his Latur City seat for a third consecutive time as he was ahead by a
comfortable margin of more than 40,000 votes over his nearest rival till late
Thursday evening.

Their other brother Riteish
campaigned for his siblings. In the past, there have been father-son duos in
the Lower House like Chhagan Bhujbal and his won Pankaj, and Ganesh Naik and
his son Sandeep (all NCP).

Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was chief
minister between 1999-2003 and 2004-2008, nurtured his home district Latur in
central Maharashtra during his decades-long political career.