November 8: Meets Sharad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, S.R. Bommai individually and tells them to be "realistic". November 9: Meets Biju Patnaik and other leaders. Speaks to Mulayam on the phone and fixes a Biju-Mulayam meeting for the same evening. November 10: The PAC meeting scheduled for 4 pm gets postponed as VP wants a consensus before it. Deve Gowda, Sharad Yadav and Laloo Yadav meet VP. Bommai later joins the meeting.