Aged 92, Maha's longest-serving MLA quits electoral politics
Ninety-two-year-old Ganpatrao Deshmukh announced his retirement from electoral politics on Tuesday, 56 years after he was first elected as a lawmaker in 1962. Deshmukh, an 11-term Peasants and Workers Party MLA, is the longest-serving Assembly member from Maharashtra. He said, "It is time I take the break as I cannot (even) read or write due to low vision."