The restructuring of the KPCC is likely to be effected next month following local elections in the State.
The AICC almost began the exercise on Monday but it had to be postponed in view of the impending local polls. AICC’s Karnataka in charge M M Jacob had asked KPCC president Mallikarjun Kharge to meet the AICC leaders on Monday to finalise the new list of office-bearers. However, Mr Kharge told the AICC leaders that since the Congress leaders would be busy in the election process, wideranging consultations may not be possible and hence, it should be postponed until after the polls.
Mr Kharge, who arrived here in the morning, called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmed Patel and Union labour minister Oscar Fernandes. Mr Kharge told Deccan Herald that he explained to Mrs Gandhi the current political situation in the state, including the appointment of Merajuddin Patel as president of the state JD(S). He also told her of the local polls and that the Congress would emerge victorious in majority of the local bodies.
In his meeting with Ahmed Patel, the state Congress chief told him that the PCC should be reconstituted immediately after the polls, since it had been one year that he had submitted a recommendatory list to the AICC. It is learnt senior Congress leaders like K H Muniyappa, Margaret Alva, B K Hariprasad, Dharam Singh, D K Shiv Kumar, Siddaramaiah among others have given their own lists to the high command to be appointed to various posts of the PCC.