"How can any aspersion be cast on me and Congressgiven a clean chit?" he had fumed yesterday. But today, on his way out fromthe adjourned Rajya Sabha, he held out an olive branch: "The only strengthI had was the Congress party. So how can the Congress party and I bedivorced". Singh did not respond when asked about possibility of hisjoining the Samajwadi Party, though the Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh hadgone on to say that he was welcome. But then the same Samajwadi Party leader hadalso sought to use Natwar Singh to target Sonia Gandhi as well. In response toall this, instead of countering Amar Singh's charge that the Congress presidentherself was implicated in the oil-deal, Natwar Singh chose to only thank themwhile being non-comittal. There was plenty of time to talk, he had hinted,between today and Monday, when Parliament reconvenes.