New Delhi: After selecting chief ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, Congress president Rahul Gandhi again held hectic parleys with top party leaders to decide on the top post for Chhattisgarh. PTI sources say that the process of consultation on who will be the next chief minister of Chhattisgarh was marked by flip-flop throughout the day and the official announcement in this regard is expected to happen today.


Gandhi held several rounds of discussion since Saturday morning with the four aspirants for the post--T S Singh Deo, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Bhupesh Baghel and Charan Das Mahant--at his Tughlaq Lane residence in New Delhi.

Earlier, the Congress president tweeted a smiling picture of all the four aspirants for the Chhattisgarh CM's post along with a quote by Reid Hoffman.

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.- Reid Hoffman," he tweeted.


Party sources said the Congress was also toying with the idea of having a CM and a deputy CM, and also mulling division of the CM term to accommodate more leaders.

Congress had romped home to power in Chhattisgarh after 15 years with a two-third majority. The Congress had on Friday named Ashok Gehlot Rajasthan's next chief minister after several rounds of discussions lasting more than two days. In Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Kamal Nath was announced as chief minister-designate on December 13.