The Victorian Greens want to stage an official takeover of its largest branch, Darebin, amid the continued fall-out from the party's disastrous showing in this year's Batman byelection.

But the party's head office insists no action will be taken without the input of the Darebin branch members.

Anger is growing within the inner-north branch that the process that was supposed to find and punish internal saboteurs is now being used to justify a “takeover” of Darebin, insiders have told The Age.

Standing with candidate Alex Bhathal, Greens leader Richard Di Natale concedes defeat in Batman. Credit:AAP

The party’s state council decided at the weekend that it wanted the Darebin branch to be run by “administrators” for up to two years in an effort to “move towards resolving the internal conflicts within its membership”.