Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and state health minister TS Singh Deo met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday amid a power tussle in the state.
TS Singh Deo has laid claim to the top post, demanding that rotational chief ministership formula be applied.
As per an informal internal deal struck after the assembly polls in 2018, Baghel was to serve as chief minister for only two-and-a-half years and Singh Deo was to take over afterwards.
Baghel completed two-and-a-half years in office in June and Deo has been pressing for a change.
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Reports said that the crisis is threatening to heat up as Deo is refusing to settle for anything less than the CM chair.
Both have said they would abide by the decision of the party high command.
"Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are our leaders and we would abide with whatever they say,"Singh Deo told reporters before the meeting.
Baghel has also said that whatever decision the leadership takes will be followed.
While the two have met Rahul Gandhi earlier on the issue, Baghel has also met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
The intra-party bickering in the state has been going for long. In the past, slogans were also raised in support of TS Singh Deo during a protest against inflation by the Youth Congress in Delhi.