Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 26: The Congress high command has invited senior leaders of Karnataka to come to Delhi during the first week of January to discuss about the ways and means to revive the fortunes of the party in Karnataka. Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar, M B Patil, H K Patil, K H Muniyappa, B K Hariplrasd and Dinesh Gundu Rao have received instructions to come to Delhi together.

Reports say that even some other leaders like Zameer Ahmed Khan, Ramesh Kumar, and Krishna Byregowda might accompany these leaders.

The high command plans to strengthen the party from grass root level in Karnataka. It plans to distribute various positions to leaders based on their caste-wise and community-wise hold, individual capacity, charisma, capacity to pool resources for the party etc. All India Congress Committee observers, Madusudan Mistry and Bhakta Charandas have already conducted meetings and recommended four names to the post of the state Congress president.

It is said that the party wants to give prominence to Lingayat, Vokkkaliga, and Dalit communities, which appear to have drifted away from the Congress fold, going by the recent election results. The observers also want backward classes and Muslims to be given representations for forging a winning combination. Therefore, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, it is said, want to personally discuss the matter with state leaders before allocating positions including that of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president.