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Nagpur: The DMK is a strong political outfit that may come to power in Tamil Nadu. He is confident that Gadkari would win five lakh votes this time on the basis of his developmental agenda. No wonder they are coming out with imaginary ideas of ‘DMK’ which has never worked in Nagpur,” said Sudhakar Deshmukh, Gadkari’s election in-charge for the April 11 elections. Patole was indeed a giant killer in 2014 when he defeated Nationalist Congress Party’s stalwart Praful Patel from Bhandara-Gondia constituency in eastern Vidarbha. Though the RSS was born and proliferated from Nagpur, it has till recently been a Congress stronghold.Gadkari was only the second BJP candidate to have won from here..