Former Congress MLA joins NCP

Rajale,who is an architect,was elected from Pathardi constituency to the Assembly in the 2004 polls. After the delimitation exercise,his constituency got fragmented and was allotted to the NCP,prompting him to rebel unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 2009 Assembly polls.

As a Congress MLA,he had created a stir by writing a letter to the high command against the then chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.