Lines drawn, teams go into huddles

Emerging from the lunch, Sonia said: 8216;8216;I wanted to thank all the Opposition party leaders for their cooperation in the last five years. And we will continue working together during the elections.8217;8217;

RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav said, 8216;8216;Leaders of all the secular parties had lunch sitting around one table. That is enough proof that we are united and we will defeat the BJP-led NDA.8217;8217;

Earlier in the day, Sonia asked her MPs to 8216;8216;expose the Prime Minister for his constantly shifting stance on all major national issues 8212; Gujarat, Ayodhya and Pakistan, to name only three.8217;8217;

All set to turn the Bofors gun against the NDA in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress demanded an apology from those involved in the vilification campaign against the late Rajiv Gandhi, who was cleared by the high court in the Bofors case yesterday.

Congress spokesperson Satyavrat Chaturvedi said, 8216;8216;It would definitely be an election issue and we will expose the conspirators and how low they can stoop.8217;8217;