Sonia Gandhi is spearheading a  march from the AICC headquarters to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former Prime Minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case.

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Gandhi, CWC members, party MPs as also other office bearers after meeting at 24 Akbar Road here started the march to the residence of Singh on 3 Motilal Nehru Marg.

Singh had on Wednesday expressed confidence that he will prove his innocence in a fair trial. "Of course, I am upset but this is part of life. I have always said I am open for legal scrutiny...I am sure the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts," Singh had said. A special court had summoned Singh along with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others as accused in a case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked them to appear before it on April 8.