The Congress party is holding a brainstorming session of its leaders in Shimla on July 7, 8 and 9, All India Congress Committee general secretary Ambika Soni said on Thursday.

Soni, who along with another AICC general secretary Oscar Fernandes had a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, said the agenda for the Shimla session was being worked out.

She added the session will be a follow-up of the Panchmari session held three years ago when the party, for the first time, had endorsed the idea of coalition.

The Shimla session, seasoned observers said, will also serve as an opportunity to nearly 300 Congress leaders, of various rank and file, to speak out their mind.

Recently veteran leader Arjun Singh had caused shock waves in the party by claiming that groupism was rampant.