After a see-saw week, the Congress-Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam alliance seems to firmly back on track with reports suggesting that DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will speak to Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday and thank her for the Congress's acceptance of their seat-sharing formula.
Sources also said Karunanidhi would speak to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is believed to have played a major role in keeping the alliance intact.
Meanwhile, with latest reports coming in, senior DMK leaders M K Alagiri and Dayanidi Maran met Sonia Gandhi at her residence with sweets and a saree late on Monday night.
There was no official word on what transpired at the meeting but it is believed that the Alagiri and Maran carried a message from their party chief M Karunanidhi for Gandhi.
The development come on a day when the DMK ministers in the cabinet withheld their resignations as the two parties rushed to sort out their differences.
The last week had seen both the allies taking extremely divergent positions on the alliance, with the DMK on th verge of leaving the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre.
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