The Congress-NCP’s Democratic Front came together to do all they could to save their party colleagues from being taken to task over the Adarsh society scam. But, this ‘alliance’ turned sour when the cabinet meeting veered into other issues. Both the Congress and the NCP had separate meetings with their cabinet colleagues in view of the crucial subject of accepting of the Adarsh commission report. Though the cabinet meeting was scheduled at 11 am, it began at 12.45 pm, as lengthy discussions were being held, apparently, to save their partymen.

After these separate meetings, referred to as ‘pre-cabinet meetings’, another meeting took place, in which a few senior cabinet ministers from both the sides were allowed to participate. Later, the two NCP ministers Sunil Tatkare and Rajesh Tope, both of whom had been named in the inquiry commission report had a one-to-one meeting with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. They are said to have explained circumstances in which they chaired meetings on the Adarsh society (as mentioned in the probe report), when both of them were ministers of state for urban development between 2003 to 2005.