NEW DELHI: That the leadership vacuum in Congress is percolating to state units and hampering their functioning was evident Thursday when Karnataka Congress functionary Dinesh Gundu Rao , who earlier resigned as state party chief, met Sonia Gandhi and urged that his replacement be named soon.“Our workers and leaders are in a state of confusion. It's been two months since I resigned as state party president. Let's not delay this further because it sends wrong signal,” he told reporters.There are concerns that AICC has failed to appoint new presidents in key states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, where organisation is witnessing clashes.While Jyotiraditya Scindia is locked in a war of nerves with chief minister Kamal Nath in MP, a senior leader from Maharashtra said the situation in the state is not comfortable despite formation of coalition government with Shiv Sena and NCP.“There is an urgency about having a new organisational chief here. But there is a drift here which is reflective of the drift in AICC,” he lamented.Besides, the leadership is worried about growing dissent in Punjab unit with individual MLAs speaking out against the Amarinder Singh dispensation. Sources said Congress brass recently met Navjot Sidhu , in what was a bid to pacify him. Sidhu resigned from the Punjab Cabinet after a spat with CM Amarinder Singh, and there are rumours that he may go out of the party.