Day before Counting was spent keeping count of who met who as leaders engaged each other and worked the networks, not just cellular, to get the numbers right:
• Busy Sonia Gandhi was on the phone with H D Deve Gowda
• Mulayam Singh ran into Cong’s Jaipal Reddy at Harkishen Singh Surjeet’s residence. Was irritated when someone mentioned bonding with NDA: Hame gaali mat dijiye
• Cong’s Natwar Singh met SP’s Amar Singh while Surjeet sat with Deve Gowda
• Never-give-up Chandrashekhar called on V P Singh
• Mayawati had time only for the ailing Kanshi Ram