After day-long meetings and marathon consultations with senior party leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, to select chief ministers for newly-won Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, with a tussle between the old and the young guard, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi late Thursday night ended the suspense as Kamal Nath was named the new Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. There will be no deputy chief minister for the state.

Gandhi's official residence had became a revolving door on Thursday as four main chief ministerial claimants and AICC observers for the three Hindi heartland states made repeated visits to hold several rounds of discussions to assist the party president to untie the gordian knot.