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  7 Years After Expelling Him, CPM May Welcome Somnath Chatterjee Back

  CPM chief Sitaram Yechury had lunch and a spent close to two hours on Sunday with former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The veteran leader had been expelled from the party in July 2008 for refusing to quit the Speaker's post as the Left withdrew support to the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

• Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Host Lunch for UPA Lawmakers Today

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi will host a lunch for UPA lawmakers today, the first such occasion to interact with them after the worst electoral debacle of the party and the alliance it leads.

• Prime Minister dines with BJP leaders tomorrow, UPA tonight

  The Prime Minister's dinner diplomacy as he preps for the winter session of Parliament will not end with his allies. Dr Manmohan Singh hopes to host top leaders of the main opposition party, the BJP, for either lunch or dinner tomorrow, sources have said.

• PM hosts dinner for UPA tonight; hopes to have the BJP over tomorrow

  The Prime Minister's dinner diplomacy as he preps for the winter session of Parliament will not end with his allies. Dr Manmohan Singh hopes to host top leaders of the main opposition party, the BJP, for either lunch or dinner tomorrow, sources have said.

• Mulayam, Mayawati attend Sonia's lunch, but where are Pawar and Praful?

  The seating arrangements at Sonia Gandhi's lunch today conferred VIP status on former Chief Minister Mayawati - she was placed at Mrs Gandhi's table. It's not often that Mayawati and her bete noire - Mulayam Singh Yadav - are seen within striking distance. But in a major coup, Mrs Gandhi's meal for the ruling coalition and its supporting partners s...

• Ahead of Vice Presidential polls, Sonia Gandhi to host lunch for UPA leaders

  UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will host a lunch for MPs of the ruling alliance and supporting parties today, ahead of the vice presidential election on August 7, official sources said.

• Presidential poll: Sonia Gandhi hosts lunch, Mamata Banerjee's party attends

  UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today hosted lunch for all MPs belonging to the ruling coalition and supporting parties, a day before they vote for India's next President.

• Jailed MLAs at Akhilesh Yadav's lunch for Pranab Mukherjee

  The UPA's candidate for President, Pranab Mukherjee, broke bread yesterday in Lucknow with not just the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party head Mulayam Singh Yadav. Present at the grand lunch, among the many politicians and hangers-on, were two MLAs who are in jail on criminal charges.

• Akhilesh Yadav to host Pranab Mukherjee to lunch on Tuesday

  A lavish spread and a grand welcome awaits Pranab Mukherjee, the ruling United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) presidential candidate, when he arrives in the state capital on Tuesday.

• APJ Abdul Kalam will contest, says Mamata Banerjee, but he is undecided, so is NDA

  APJ Abdul Kalam, who was hosted at lunch by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today, has said he will decide at the right time whether to contest Presidential elections for a second stint in the Rashtrapati Bhawan. And though Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee insists that he will contest, a lot of factors now seem to put a question mark on t...

• Sonia Gandhi skips Prime Minister's lunch for Zardari

  UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday skipped the lunch hosted by the Prime Minister in honour of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari apparently due to ill health. The Congress president, who was invited for the lunch, had sent a letter of regret, sources said.

• UPA 2G war: PM's first meeting with Chidambaram over lunch

  The Prime Minister is back in the country and Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to meet him on Wednesday, before he meets Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, his two senior ministers believed to be at war over a Finance Ministry note to the Prime Minister's Office questioning Mr Chidambaram's actions when 2G licences were being allotted.