Home alone

When UPA II troubleshooter Pranab Mukherjee was closeted in his room in Parliament House with DMK representative Dayanidhi Maran working out a patch-up formula, the senior-most Congress minister in the government from Tamil Nadu, P Chidambaram, paced the corridors anxiously appearing eager to find out what was happening inside. The moment Mukherjee emerged from the meeting, the home minister walked up to him and the two were engrossed in a conversation in the Parliament House corridors for over five minutes, leaving many bystanders curious. Journalists keen to figure out if their body language pointed to any tension between the two were disappointed because neither betrayed any emotion while speaking.