The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is calling up selected party representatives from Maharashtra to know their choice of leader for leading the party’s state unit. Last month, it used a similar method to seek the opinion of Mumbai’s block presidents before appointing the city president.

About 560 members have been connected through the party’s Shakti app. A pre-recorded message from party’s state in-charge H K Patil asks the members to give at least three names they deem suitable for replacing Balasaheb Thorat, the incumbent Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) chief. The development suggests that the party has made up its mind to change the organisational leadership.