Bengaluru: With focus on the upcoming assembly polls in Karnataka, the Congress top brass is likely to take a call on replacing Karnataka incharge AICC General Secretary Digvijaya Singh with former Union Minister K V Thomas.

With the party suffering a humiliating loss in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand as also the election debacle in Goa, the party is expected to make structural changes to strengthen the party and in-charge general secretaries of several states are expected to be replaced.

Congress leaders from Karnataka too have been pressing for a change in the setup so that a central leader who can better understand the problems of the organisation in the state is appointed. A decision in this regard will be taken after Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi return from the US.

Thomas’s name has started doing the rounds as he was earlier sent to the state as AICC observer for the Rajya Sabha elections. Thomas will hand over the chairmanship of Public Accounts Committee, an important Parliamentary panel, to Mallikarjun Kharge in two and half months. At present, Kharge is Congress floor leader in the Lok Sabha and will take additional charge as PAC chairman. Ernakulam Lok Sabha MP Thomas’ term as PAC chairman will end on May 1.

Congress general secretary in-charge of the Goa Digvijaya Singh has been facing criticism from a section of the party leaders for his failure to install a Congress government in the coastal state despite it being the single largest party. Singh is currently in-charge general secretary for four states — Karnataka, Goa, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.