new delhi festering dissidence in maharashtra congress boiled over on friday when revenue minister narayan rane came out in the open to attack chief minister vilasrao deshmukh saying the party would have to face electoral reverses if it did not take corrective measuresin what was an unprecedented outburst rane said the state government was focused on serving the interests of only the chief minister and not 10 crore people rane who started on a restrained note training his guns at one person soon removed any ambigutity that his target was the chief minister why do you want me to name him you know him he said adding that he was talking about the chief ministerrane met aicc general secretary incharge of maharashtra margaret alva to discuss his complaint before talking to reporters but it was not clear if he had the consent of the high command to go public with his outburstadding importance to ranes delhi visit is the fact that he has sought time to discuss his woes with party chief sonia gandhi and is likely to try his luck on monday supporters of deshmukh are sure to get somewhat unsettled if rane after launching a public tirade against the chief minister succeeds in getting the crucial audience with the party chiefodds had appeared stacked against deshmukh with the leadership displaying clear signs of annoyance with the chief minister when tensions with left over the nuclear deal and fears that they might lead to an early poll earned him a reprieve dissidents seem to have decided to up the ante once again now that the prospects of an early poll have appeared to have receded though a recent import from shiv sena rane has styled himself as a maratha rival to deshmukh who owes his post also to his membership of the dominant caste in light of the leaderships calculation that keeping a maratha at the helm may aid in countering the sharad pawarled ncpthe rebel sainik said while the state was facing new problems every day there was no solution in sight saying that he was not happy with the functioning of the state government he warned that the party would face setback in elections if things continued in the same fashionthe unrest in congress is unlikely to comfort the bosses in aicc who were looking to set the state organisation in order before allimportant lok sabha polls with congress running the state for the second consecutive term in partnership with ncp party strategists had wooed a rebellious shiv sainik in rane to add muscle to its mumbai unit and to strengthen its base in konkan region the new entrant did dent his erstwhile party by taking with him a clutch of mlas and winning byelections before running out of steam in ramtek he has been unable to sort out equations with deshmukh because of his aspiration to take the top job in the state he had earlier held as a sainik