However, the agenda for the meeting was not officially disclosed.

The party's highest decision-making body is expected to accord a warm welcome to the Gandhi scion and likely to discuss the current political situation.

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.

Referring to the Gujarat poll outcome, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President G Parameshwara said he hoped Karnataka, too, would back Gandhi’s leadership.

At a time when Congress party should be working on the flaws in election strategy, the exhibition of carefree attitude of the leader at its helm has left people shocked.

The BJP bagged just seven more than the magic figure of 92, while the Congress and its allies lifted 80 seats, only 12 short of a simple majority.

The Congress will analyse in detail why it failed to dislodge the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has ruled Gujarat for 22 long years, and the road ahead with 80 newly elected MLAs -- the highest number in decades.

India TV's team investigated the claim of Congress party president Rahul Gandhi and his key leaders including Patidar leader Hardik Patel that EVMs were tempered with to skew the result in favour of Bharatiya Janata Party.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Gujarat election results raise questions on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's credibility and the country is not listening to him.

“The Congress party accepts the verdict of the people and congratulates the new governments in both states," Congress president Rahul Gandhi said.

Rahul Gandhi had campaigned in Gujarat extensively before assuming the charge of party President on December 16. After Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka left, Rahul Gandhi went to attend Parliament.

While PM Modi’s whirlwind tour of the state in the last leg is believed to have been the key factor behind the BJP’s winning run, there are ample reasons for Congress to introspect.

Gandhi rubbished BJP's claims that his party fought the recently held Gujarat state elections of casteist lines and said that the party brought the OBC, Dalit and the Patidar communities together on a Congress platform.

Meanwhile, accepting defeat Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that the party accepts verdict of people and congratulates new governments in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

The poll body had on December 13 issued the show cause notice to Rahul Gandhi for "prima facie" violating the provisions under the election law and the model code.

In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said Rahul Gandhi's inaugural speech on Saturday laid down the contours of an alternative narrative that the Congress will put forward before the people.

Gandhi, who took over the party reins in midst of high-octane assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal on Saturday, is looking to put the house in order from day 1.

Chidamabarm pointed out that Congress’ idea of the nation is different from that of the BJP and he cited Rahul Gandhi's inaugural speech as the Congress chief to buttress his argument.

She recalled how nervous she was "that my hands were shaking" 20 years ago when she made her first address as Congress President.

Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took over the reins of the Congress, signalling not just the coming of age of the heir apparent, but a generational change in the 132-year-old party.