Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jan 29: National leaders of the Congress have not shown any sense of urgency to sort out the issue of choosing a successor to Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, Dinesh Gundu Rao. They have asked Dinesh to continue in the post till alternative arrangement is made.

The top leaders are currently busy with the three-cornered Delhi assembly battle. As such, the leaders have no time to devote to sort out factional politics in the state. In order to see that a void is not created during the period till the issue of the incumbent is sorted out, Dinesh has been asked to manage the show.

In view of this decision, Dinesh, who had remained away from the party office since the last about six weeks, came to the office on Tuesday January 28 and chaired a meeting. He held consultations with important leaders from Bengaluru city district. This happened to be the first ever meeting to be presided over by Dinesh after he resigned from his post, owning moral responsibility for the debacle of the party in the assembly bypoll.

Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Dinesh said that there has been delay in the appointment of the KPCC chief. "This situation should not drag on, resulting in issuance of contradictory statements by different leaders. My personal stand is that the leaders should decide this issue at the earliest," he stated. On the issue of splitting of the posts of the leader of the legislature party and of the leader of the opposition, he said that such rumours will continue to come in till the leaders take a final call.