Congress Working Committee to bid adieu to Pranab

United Progressive Alliance's [ Images ] Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ], the senior-most member of the Congress Working Committee, will be given a farewell by the party's top brass on Monday, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] and party chief Sonia Gandhi [ Images ].

A meeting of the CWC has been specially convened on June 25 to give a send-off to the UPA's chief troubleshooter. The meeting is also expected to discuss the Presidential poll in the light of UPA ally Mamata Banerjee [ Images ] still not making public its stand on the issue.

Earlier in the day, Mukherjee said in West Bengal [ Images ] that he will resign as finance minister on June 26 and from the CWC in a day or two, ahead of filing nomination papers for the Presidential election.