New Delhi, Sep 5 (TIWN) With just five months left for the Assembly elections in the national capital, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of former city unit chiefs on Thursday evening to discuss the leadership issue as the party has been left headless after the death of former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, party sources said.

Sonia Gandhi had taken over the post of the party's interim chief in August, after a three-month crisis following Rahul Gandhi's resignation from the party chief's post.  The tussle over the party chief's post - simmering for months -- made headlines after he openly supported the government's move on Jammu and Kashmir.  Mr Scindia -- a close associate of Rahul Gandhi - had been waiting for a plum post since the Congress won the assembly elections last year. But despite much buzz, he failed to make it to the post of the Chief Minister, his deputy or even the state party chief.

There has been no deputy chief minister post and Kamal Nath continued to head both the government and the faction-ridden party.  Mr Scindia has since been angling for the party's top job. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha election -- Rahul Gandhi, who had convinced him to accept Kamal Nath as the Chief Minister -- tasked him with rebuilding the party in western Uttar Pradesh.  But the Congress was decimated in the election and suffered a double blow when Rahul Gandhi stepped down from the party's top post.