Updated on Sunday, August 06, 2006, 00:00 IST

New Delhi, Aug 06: Apparently isolated in the Congress in the wake of the Pathak Authority report, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh appears to be mobilising political parties opposed to the Indo-US nuclear deal in a move aimed at embarrassing the party and the coalition it leads.

After a dinner on Friday night with Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and JD(U) leader Digvijay Singh, Natwar is slated to meet leaders of SP, CPI(M) and BJP at his residence today to finetune their opposition to the US legislation to implement the deal.

The meeting is likely to discuss the resolution that these parties want Parliament to adopt to reflect the "sense of the house" against various provisions of the US law they claim would go against India's interests.

The development takes place at a time when Natwar Singh finds himself in isolation after his indictment by the Pathak Inquiry Authority for misuing his position to help people close to him and his son Jagat for obtaining Iraqi oil contracts.

In the last two days, Natwar had also been carping in his comments on Congress having been exonerated by the authority wondering how he could be singled out. He had also said he was privy to "a lot of information" which he would disclose at the "appropriate time".

Bureau Report