Alarmed over the reports that the Election Commission has decided to hold elections to the State Assembly in May, a team of senior Congress leaders, led by state unit President Mallikarjun Kharge, on Tuesday left for Delhi. The team includes leaders such as Dharam Singh, Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar and V S Ugrappa.

According to sources, the State unit of Congress is opposed to the idea of holding elections to the State Assembly in May as it thinks that early elections would benefit BJP. The Congress is learnt to be strongly in favour of holding elections either in October or November. Even though the state unit had made this known to the Congress high command earlier, the latest reports that the CEC is toying with the idea of holding elections in May, has unnerved the state unit leaders.

It is reliably learnt that the state unit wants to pressurise both the CEC as well as the Congress high command to postpone the elections on the ground that sufficient time is needed to set right the anamolies in the voters list and revise the voters list as per the Delimitation Commission’s recommendations.