India, June 12 -- Going by recent happenings, it seems the Congress high command's authority is gradually eroding in several States, including Telangana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Karnataka. While the grand old party is confronted with leadership crisis at the national level, it is disintegrating in States, too. Senior Congress leaders feel that with party president Rahul Gandhi taking a decision to step down, the refusal by the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and other leaders to accept it and the subsequent silence on this issue, the Congress is falling apart. In such confusion, it isn't surprising that there is growing indiscipline and factionalism after the party performed poorly in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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