NEW DELHI: Congress circles do not see Ajit Jogi’s and Gurudas Kamat’s quitting as one-off incidents but predict the trend could be replicated in other states as entrenched leaders — despite being sworn loyalists of 10 Janpath — hit back after being at the receiving end of Rahul Gandhi ’s peculiar organisational approach and ‘bullying’ style of his handpicked PCC presidents.While a section of stakeholders betray impatience for an early take-over of the party by Rahul Gandhi and his new team and execution of an action plan, including setting up of an umbrella advisory panel for reviving the party, another section feels that if Gandhi overlooks the organisational ‘malfunctioning’ that has been created will complicate the crisis confronting the Congress.People familiar with the Mumbai Congress said Kamat’s action reflected the wounded sentiments of traditional leaders since Rahul Gandhi asked Shiv Sainki-turned Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam and Samajawadi-turned AICC general secretary Mohan Prakash to “teach them Congress politics and ideology.”For months, senior state leaders have been complaining to both the Gandhis against the Nirupam-Prakash team. Sources said Sonia Gandhi aide Ahmed Patel tried to reach out and pacify Kamat on Tuesday.“The case of Jogi, whom Soniaji made CM a decade back despite opposition from majority of MLAs, shows how the loyalty factor can cut both ways,” quipped a party MP. “There is a basic contradiction in Rahulji’s approach.Though he advocates democratic approach on organisational matters, he and his personal advisors unilaterally appoint PCC chiefs in many states, brushing aside views of senior leaders. This happened in Kerala, Madhya Pradesh , Rajasthan, Haryana, Mumbai, etc,” said a party insider. Last week’s PCC executive meeting in Kerala saw delegates attacking PCC chief VM Sudheeran for working at cross-purposes with Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala in the run to the assembly polls. It took veteran AK Antony’s intervention to stop a couple of delegates from criticising Rahul Gandhi’s approach.For months, senior leaders from Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have been complaining to the Gandhis against the PCC chiefs. Even within the AICC set-up, the likes of CP Joshi , Mohan Prakash and Madhusudan Mistry are seen as a ‘parallel team’ vis-à-vis traditional leaders. “There is a growing impression in the party that Rahulji does not feel at home with senior Congress leaders and that he is comfortable more with rank outsiders or lightweights,” said a party insider.Even before Jogi’s and Kamat’s resignations, party leaders said that Rahul Gandhi had a ‘live demonstration’ of what kind of responses his approach could evoke from entrenched and self-confident seniors: “In Punjab, Amarinder Singh openly criticised Rahulji’s approach to force him to finally dump Bajwa and name him PCC chief. In Assam , Himanta Biswa Sarma responded to Rahulji’s blind opposition by destroying the Congress itself,” the party insider said.