Amid reports that the Congress high command is looking for a new Mamata Banerjee-compatible face to lead the party's Bengal unit. The present Pradesh Congress President Adhir Chowdhury has made it clear that he is not hungry for posts and that he will quit his post whenever he is called upon by the central leadership to do so.

"Let my party workers and the people of Bengal know that I am not hungry for any post … I have been in politics and worked for my party because I have loved to do so … I never craved for any post … nor I do crave for one now … nor will I yearn for it in future," Chowdhury the former Congress leader in Lok Sabha said.

Inside reports say that post elections and post his defeat in Behrampore some kind of coldness have entered in the relationship between Chowdhury and his bosses in Delhi.

The uncrowned king of Behrampore, Chowdhury who won the parliamentary seat for five consecutive times faced a shocking defeat at the hands of TMC candidate and former India cricketer Yusuf Pathan in the recently concluded general elections.

When asked earlier as to whether he was quitting as the PCC president he said he was never a permanent State party chief. "I am just a working president of the Pradesh Congress and will continue to do my work till my party wants me to do so," he said after the elections making it clear that he had not put in his papers.

According to PCC sources post elections the PCC has sent the names of the party members to the national leadership and entrusted the entire function of selecting new office bearers including the PCC president on the high command. Till then Chowdhury will continue to function as the PCC president.

A fierce bête noire of the Bengal Chief Minister whom the TMC supremo have repeatedly accused for spiking a Congress-TMC alliance Chowdhury holds Mamata Banerjee responsible for his party's sagging fortunes in the State.

He has often gone on record saying that "Mamata Banerjee has literally killed the Congress in Bengal first by breaking the party in 1998 and then by "engineering defections, implicating our workers in false cases and forcing them to join the TMC."

Chowdhury is of the view that if the Congress still goes back to TMC for national compulsions then there would be no Congress left in Bengal.

This is the reason his close aides say why he opted for the Left and not the TMC as an alliance partner.