At a press conference after the meeting, Mukherjee called Chidambaram "our valued colleague" but made it clear that he would make any comments on the issue only after he talks to the Home Minister, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and other party leaders.

Mukherjee said he had to go through all the papers and find out what is the legal implication of it.

Advancing his arrival here from Washington after completing all official engagements there, Mukherjee met the Prime Minister at the New York Palace Hotel and snapped at a reporter who tried to seek details, notwithstanding his caveat that he would not not be commenting on a domestic issue on foreign soil.

"Why should I make comments on domestic issues outside India. I am not a fugitive. I am not leaving the country for all time to come. I know you have infinite inquisitiveness. I am not here to satisfy your infinite inquisitiveness," he said.

"I have to go through all the papers. What is the legal implication of it has to be found out," Mukherjee said.

The meeting comes against the backdrop of a raging controversy back home after the surfacing of a finance ministry note through the RTI which had said that the 2G spectrum allocation scam could have been avoided if Chidambaram as finance minister had insisted on auctions and seen that spectrum was not sold at 2001 price.

While the Prime Minister had defended Chidambaram and said all ministers had his confidence, the Home Minister had refused to make any public comments saying he would await the arrival of both the leaders from the US.

The Opposition parties have been gunning for Chidambaram ever since the finance ministry note was presented to the Supreme Court in a case related to 2G issue during the week.

After the meeting with the prime minister, Mukherjee said he could not make any comments because for the simple reason that it was newspaper clippings on which he had no information.

Mukherjee said: "I have no information and there I find it is a matter which has been produced...a piece of paper, a note from the Finance Ministry to PMO has been obtained through RTI and placed in court."

"Unless I talk to the Law Minister, P Chidambaram, who is our valued colleague, and other party leaders, go through all the relevant papers what comment I will make," he said adding he agreed to meet the journalists this morning as a matter of courtesy.