Tuesday, April 26 2005 07:40 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Concerned over the dissidence against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Congress president Sonia Gandhi last night (Apr 25, 2005) intervened to sort out the crisis giving a reprieve for Dikshit.

After a two-and-a-half hour meeting Sonia had with Dikshit and her detractor and Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) chief Rambabu Sharma, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Ashok Gehlot told reporters "everything is alright in the (Delhi unit of the) party".

Asked if there could be any change in the leadership in Delhi, he shot back "What does 'everything is alright' mean?"

Six days after Dikshit had walked out of a party meeting where dissident MLAs had attacked the style of functioning of her Government, the high command intervened to summon both the Chief Minister and the DPCC president and heard their views on the crisis engulfing the Delhi unit of the party.

Adding to the woe of Dikshit was her outburst against the dissidents in TV news channel interview in which she had said that she did not want to stay as an "unwelcome guest."

At the meeting with Sonia, "both the sides presented their points of view to the party chief and after the meeting, all the misunderstandings are over," Gehlot, who is in-charge of party affairs in Delhi, said.

The AICC general secretary was flanked by Dikshit and Sharma as he addressed the media persons after the meeting at the official residence of the AICC chief and the trio, along with other senior leaders from Delhi left the venue together in an apparent show of togetherness.