However, the party executive, which will meet on December 5 for the first time since the September Lok Sabha elections, is not expected to arrive at decisions that will straitjacket the party in the days ahead. The firm commitment will be on repositioning the party in the realm of the Opposition.

At the end of the brief state Assembly session earlier this week, the party finds itself in san aggressive frame, fighting for the causes that had created an impact on the public. The parting of ways with the ruling DMK that began before the Lok Sabha polls was now complete, a TMC functionary said, adding that henceforth there was no question of looking back.

While the TMC has arrived as an aggressive Opposition party, there is no urgency inexamining the pros and cons of the AIADMK option. For now it will be issue-based political understanding wherever warranted. After all, the Assembly elections are more than a year away, it is contended.

Coming closer to the Congress through ``the AIADMK route'' is discounted. If the Congress believed in a good working relationship with the TMC, it had to be done on terms ``acceptable'' to the TMC. Something concrete is likely to emerge when Moopanar confers with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the modalities of coordination between the two parties.

The Tamil Maanila Congress is also still awaiting a word from the AICC on the Pondicherry issue. Because of the fiasco in Goa, Pondicherry has apparently been relegated to the background as far as the Congress is concerned.