New Delhi:Congress leaders now will find it difficult to ask tickets for their wives, sons, daughters and near and dear one as party vice-president Rahul Gandhi is said to be against fielding more than two persons from the same family in the coming Assembly polls.

According to the sources, Gandhi has directed party officials dealing with Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, to follow the Karnataka model of selecting nominees.

“Rahulji is for decentralisation of power in the organisation. Therefore, recommendation of candidates coming from block, teshil, district and state Congress committees will be taken seriously. The AICC’s central election committee cannot decide the nominees ignoring recommendations from states,” they said.

Moreover, influential leaders pressing tickets for their proteges will have to give it in writing to Gandhi that they should be held responsible if their nominee lose the seats.

Rahul Gandhi has now realised that the party candidates cannot win elections merely on the Congress symbol or in the name of state and central leaders. They have to be involved in an organisational network in the state.