NEW DELHI, Dec. 3 -- Rahul Gandhi (50), who is to be re-anointed as the Congress President, faces a serious crisis of shortage of capable leaders in his camp whom he can position in his team after the organisational elections in January or February.

He has to first find the replacement of his hand-picked K C Venugopal(57) as the General Secretary, in-charge of organisation, in the wake of almost all senior leaders wanting him removed from the post from the way his staff blocks their urgent meetings with him and he rarely meets the party workers wanting to discuss the organisational matters with him. Though hailing from Kerala, he is now a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan.

Even as a hunt has begun for his successor, Randeep Singh Surjewal...