The two-year jail sentence to Rahul Gandhi and his subsequent disqualification from parliament appear to have helped the Congress take a step towards healing its breach with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress and Telangana's ruling Bharat Raksha Samithi, but a fresh fissure appears imminent elsewhere. Upset with Mr Gandhi's comment about VD Savarkar, ally Uddhav Thackeray has announced that he would skip the Congress's dinner meet in Delhi.