India, March 15 -- The Congress is likely to soon replace its Pune city unit president amid growing opposition to existing leadership after the defeat in the recent Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections compared to the 2017 civic polls.

Congress leader Arvind Shinde has been serving as the acting president of the city unit for the past three years with the party yet to formally appoint him. The Lok Sabha, assembly and municipal corporation elections were held during his tenure.

While the party fared poorly in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections, its performance marginally improved in the municipal corporation polls, which it contested independently even as the party lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Nationalist Cong...