NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi will spend time at the party headquarters here twice a week and also interact with the general public once a week, party leaders said.

According to a party leader, Gandhi will spend time in his office at the Congress headquarters every Tuesday and Friday when he is in the national capital and look after the party’s work.

“He will speak to the party leaders, look after the work of the party and take their suggestions,” a party leader said.

“He will also hold a junta darbar every Saturday at the party office,” he said.

Earlier, former Congress President Sonia Gandhi used to sit in her office at the party’s headquarters in central Delhi’s Akbar Road.

Since the Gandhi scion took over the reins of the century-old party from his mother in December last year, he has boosted efforts to connect with the general public.

Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for only hugging “special people”, not the common man.

“He call himself a common man, but hugs only the special ones. Modiji, why such compulsion? Farmers, labourers and youths too should be there,” Gandhi said in a tweet attaching photograph of Modi hugging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Congress President’s remarks came in the wake of the Prime Minister defending his hugs with world leaders saying that he was a common man and did not know any protocol.

During the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to India last week, the Prime Minister broke the protocol to receive him at the airport here and welcomed him with a hug.