Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be meeting the CWC members and her party MPs at the AICC Headquarters at 24, Akbar Road, here today.
According to reports, the meeting is likely to begin at 9:30 a.m.
The meeting assumes significance as it takes place a day after former prime minister Manmohan Singh was summoned in the coal blocks allocation scam.
The former prime minister, however, yesterday said that he is open to legal scrutiny and truth will prevail in the matter.
Earlier on Wednesday, a special court in Delhi summoned the former prime minister, former coal secretary P.C. Parakh, industrialist Kumar Manglam Birla and three others in the coal blocks allocation case.
The court summoned them for offences of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act. They have all been asked to appear in court on the April 8.
The case pertains to allocation of Talabira II coal block in Odisha to M/s Hindalco in 2005, when the then Prime Minister Singh was holding the coal portfolio.
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