New Delhi: With less than six months to go for the Delhi Assembly polls, the Congress faces the daunting task of finding a new president for its city unit after the demise of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit last week.
This also comes amidst the uncertainty over a new Congress president after Rahul Gandhi made his resignation public earlier this month.
The delay in appointing a new Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) chief will also hurt the party's prospects as rivals BJP and AAP have already started work on Assembly polls, said a party leader on condition of anonymity.
Among the probable leaders who could be tasked with the responsibility of leading the party in Delhi are former DPCC chiefs J P Agarwal, a five-time MP, former Union minister Ajay Maken, and former Delhi Assembly Speaker Subhash Chopra. Maken had resigned as DPCC president early this year.
The name of Arvinder Singh Lovely is also doing the rounds.
The new leader also faces the uphill task of uniting the faction-ridden Delhi unit, which had already put Dikshit and other leaders, including P C Chacko, at loggerheads on a host of issues.