KPCC posts: Madhusudan Mistry, Charan Das seeking feedback from Karnataka leaders

Bengaluru: All-India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Madhusudan Mistry was in the city on Thursday to meet state Congress leaders on likely candidates for the posts KPCC president and CLP leader.

He was accompanied by party national secretary, Bhakta Charan Das.

The two men are likely to meet 50 state party leaders, including former ministers and MPs and a few select senior legislators before returning to Delhi on Friday with their feedback on who are the most popular candidates for both posts that have fallen vacant following the resignations of Mr Dinesh Gundu Rao as KPCC chief and Mr Siddaramaiah as CLP leader. The two senior leaders quit recently owning moral responsibility for the party's poor performance in the December 5 byelections.

Party sources say that despite consulting 50 leaders, the party high command is likely to go by the advice of Mr Siddaramaiah and veteran leader, M. Mallikarjun Kharge on both appointments. While the hopefuls lining up for the post of KPCC president include D.K. Shivakumar, M.B. Patil, H.K. Patil, Eshwar Khandre, Krishna Byregowda and K.H. Muniyappa, the names of G. Parameshwar and H.K. Patil are doing the rounds for the post of CLP leader.

In all, the party will fill eight posts, including that of KPCC president and working president, leader of the opposition in the state assembly, deputy leader of the opposition and chief whip.