NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee convened a special meeting on Monday to bid farewell to veteran party leader and presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee.

Emerging from the meeting, Pranab Mukherjee thanked the party and said that it was an emotional day for him.

He announced that he will resign as finance minister on Tuesday.

Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi gave details of the meeting and said that party president Sonia Gandhi personally bid farewell to Pranab.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government will miss Pranab Mukherjee, he said.

Dwivedi announced that Pranab Mukherjee would be filing his nomination for presidential poll on June 28.

Besides Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, other senior Congress leaders were present in the meeting.

Three CWC members including Ghulam Nabi Azad and Digvijaya Singh could not make it to the meeting.