| External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet Left leaders tomorrow ahead of a possible meeting between them and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, to find common ground over their objections on the deal. |
| CPI National Secretary D Raja met Mukherjee today and he was told that the dialogue would resume tomorrow. |
| The Core Group of the Congress had earlier this week met here soon after party chief Sonia Gandhi's return from a tour of South Africa and decided to hold talks with Left leaders to find a way out. |
| Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has said that the Left is "justified" in its "posturing" over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and the 123 Agreement. |
| An editorial in the RSS mouthpiece Organiser said, "Whatever be the explanation for the Congress party's new-found arrogance, the Left is justified in its posturing (over the nuclear deal." |
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