Party spokesman Ajit Jogi said the newspaper reports from Patna claiming a revolt in the state unit were ``exaggerated and baseless,'' even as two All India Congress Committee (AICC) members accused BPCC president Sadanand Singh of having orchestrated the ``resignation drama.''

A ``majority of the office-bearers'' had contacted the high command on Thursday and denied resigning from their posts, Jogi claimed. Some of them had merely ``expressed their opinions'' on the high command's decision ``in the democratic traditions of the party,'' he said.

The party had then explained to these leaders the situation in which the decision on Bihar was taken, the Congress spokesman added.

On the other hand, AICC members Shakeeluzzama and Lalbabu Lal in separate letters faxed to Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi and the AICC general secretary in charge of Bihar, S K Shinde, have alleged that Singh had ``engineered the resignation drama under a well-planned conspiracy to embarrass the party high command.''

Singh for his part has denied having received any resignations. ``No comment'' was his terse reply to requests for his views on the CWC decision. His assertion was set off by a statement by MLC Mobarak Hussain, a known Tariq Anwar loyalist, who said he had resigned from the post of general secretary ``to draw the party high command's attention to the ground realities in Bihar where the RJD has lost popular support...''

``A majority of Congress workers do not want to be seen on the side of the RJD,'' he maintained. Shakeeluzzama, a former state minister, described the resignations as an ``attempt to blackmail'' the Congress president and charged that it was at Singh's behest that the executive members and office bearers resigned on Wednesday.

Lal, a former MLC, said those who had resignedhad ``no popular base'' and demanded their expulsion from the party for six years. BPCC vice-president and former MLC Padmasha Jha has meanwhile urged Sonia Gandhi to convene an emergency meeting of the BPCC in New Delhi to discuss the situation in the aftermath of CWC decision.

``Any decision by the party leadership on Bihar without taking into confidence the BPCC apart from being impractical and unbalanced will damage the morale of state party men,'' she said in a statement which also urged the office bearers and executive members to ``withdraw their resignations.''

Meanwhile, the two-day `brainstorming session' of the BPCC executive at Rajgir from March 6 has been postponed due to ``unavoidable reasons,'' a party release said.

Party sources told PTI that the session had been postponed to give the party leadership ``time to settle matters'' within the organisation.