New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi will chair a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Friday, his first as Congress president.

The CWC will accord a warm welcome to the new president and likely discuss the current political situation, including the rise in the party’s seat count in Gujarat and the ramifications of the 2G spectrum scam verdict.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday presided over the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in New Delhi and held discussions with senior party leaders on various issues including Rafale deal and Assam NRC draft.

The top decision-making body of the Congress decided to take on the Narendra Modi Government on the issue of corruption by launching a public campaign that will highlight the bank scams, Rafale deal and the “bad” state of the economy.

Sources said the Committee is likely to pass a resolution, “defending” former prime minister Manmohan Singh over the 2G scam issue

The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used the alleged scam to the hilt while mounting a fierce campaign against the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls

The Congress, sources said, wants to take the 2G issue to the people for which it is likely to formalise a plan soon. The CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, is also likely to adopt a resolution to this effect.

The agenda for the meeting was, however, not officially disclosed.

Though Rahul Gandhi has chaired CWC meetings in the past in the absence of his mother Sonia Gandhi, it will be for the first time that he will preside over it as Congress president.

Gandhi was elected unopposed as Congress chief on December 11 and assumed the party’s reins on December 16.

The ruling party also dismissed allegations about irregularities committed by the Modi government in fixing prices of the Rafale fighter jets, saying the Congress is spreading untruth on the issue as it is ‘frustrated’ over the absence of any middlemen in the deal.

“He (Rahul Gandhi) told Parliament that the French president said something in his ears. Within hours, the French government issued a statement exposing his lies. Can there be anything more humiliating than this? He was criticised the world over, and it happened for the first time that another country had to intervene…and issue a letter. But Rahul is carrying on with his lies,” Patra said

Countering the Congress’ claim of the Modi government’s complicity and connivance in allowing PNB fraud case accused Mehul Choksi to flee from the country and getting him citizenship of Antigua, Patra pointed to an interview given by Mehul Choksi’s Antiguan lawyer David Dorsett where he had reportedly said that Choksi was being targeted as he had a ‘loose’ connection with the Congress.