New Delhi: Indicating that a deal was close to being clinched between Congress and People's Democratic Party (PDP), leaders of Panthers party and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) were on October 26 invited to the crucial meeting between the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and PDP chief Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.

Tarigami, a CPM member of legislative assembly (MLA), who heads the seven-member People's Democratic Forum, and Bhim Singh, head of the four-member Panthers Party, were called by Gandhi during her parleys with Sayeed on government formation in Jammu and Kashmir.

PTI