Six months after it was forced to withdraw a highly controversial affidavit on the Sethusamudram case in the wake of a political storm, the Centre on Thursday finalised another affidavit to replace the earlier one in the Supreme Court.After months of bitter wrangling among the different stakeholders within the ruling coalition, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), which met here this morning, finally gave its approval to the draft affidavit that was circulated to all the members on Tuesday. The affidavit, which has tried to use as safe a language as possible, will be filed in the apex court sometime next week, sources said.The affidavit, though seeking a vacation of stay on the project, steers clear from saying whether the Adam’s Bridge in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka — popularly known as Ram Sethu — was a natural formation or a man-made one, sources said.It is also likely to tell the court that no archaeological study had been conducted in the area, though other scientific evidence available till now has concluded that the Adam’s Bridge was a natural formation. The affidavit has been the centre of a major tug-of-war between the Culture and Shipping Ministries. While the Shipping Ministry, led by the DMK’s T R Baalu, is in favour of going ahead with the project, Culture Minister Ambika Soni is of the view that there should be an archaeological study conducted to know for sure whether the Adam’s Bridge is a natural formation or not. With the two opposing views resulting in a deadlock, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked some of his ministers to get together and try to resolve the issue. However, when that too failed to find a mutually acceptable solution, the matter had to be decided by CCPA.