Congress President Sonia Gandhi today held parleys with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Haryana amidst the possibility of a change of guard in some of the states where it is in power. The meetings come as the party prepares for a massive rejig in the wake of its unprecedented debacle in Lok Sabha polls.

The day was marked by hectic consultations as Congress debated the pros and cons of replacing its chief ministers to beat the anti-incumbency mood in some states and save the party from breaking up in others.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met Gandhi in the evening. Before that, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda met the Congress President.

PTI quoting sources close to Hooda as well as the AICC general secretary in-charge for the state, Shakeel Ahmed, ruled out any likelihood of a change of guard there.

Chavan ealier met veteran party leaders AK Antony and Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel.

While Assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana are scheduled at the year-end, Congress is grappling with dissidence in Assam, whose Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will arrive here tomorrow.

Two Maharashtra leaders, Shivajrao Deshmukh and Shivajirao Moghe, too, met Gandhi.