Week after Aiyar dinner row, Modi, Manmohan shake hands

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, greeted each other warmly outside Parliament today, each taking the other's hands in his own as though meeting a long-lost friend.

Just days ago, Modi accused Manmohan's Congress party of holding a secret meeting with Pakistani leaders ahead of the Gujarat election. Or that Manmohan then tore into the BJP leader, asking him why he went uninvited to Pakistan after terrorist attacks in Udhampur and Gurdaspur.

But today, on the anniversary of the 2001



attack on Parliament, the daggers were sheathed again.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and president-elect Rahul Gandhi, too, were at Parliament. Rahul appeared to have temporarily forgotten the bitterness of the Gujarat campaign: He was seen in conversation with BJP ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushma Swaraj.

On the Gujarat campaign trail, Narendra Modi referred to a "secret meeting" between Congress leaders and Pakistani representatives at the residence of suspended party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar.