Kamal Nath is likely to step down as the Congress state president in Madhya Pradesh, in the wake of the party's drubbing in the assembly elections, the results of which were announced on December 3. 

According to news agency ANI, Kamal Nath was directed to appoint a new state president after he met the Congress high command in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Further, there were speculations that Nath may tender his resignation from the post following the party's debacle in the assembly elections. The Congress leadership was also upset over Nath's remarks against many leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, over seat sharing.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 163 of the 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, while the Congress recorded victory in 66 segments, finishing a distant second in the November 17 polls.

On Tuesday, Kamal Nath also advised party workers not to get disheartened by the loss in the just-held assembly polls and instead pull their socks up and focus on preparations for the Lok Sabha elections which are just a few months away.

Seeking to boost the morale of party workers, Nath recalled the Congress's crushing defeat in the post-Emergency 1977 Lok Sabha polls, when even stalwarts like Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi bit the dust, and how the party bounced back and recorded an impressive win three years later in 1980, bagging more than 300 seats in the Lower House of Parliament.

(With inputs from agencies)