Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a surprise appearance at an all-party meeting convened by the Speaker Meira Kumar to resolve the deadlock in Parliament over the announcement of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum scam.

Finance minister and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee assured the Opposition that the motion for the constitution of a JPC would be moved in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, which will be followed by a debate on the floor of the House. However, despite the BJP?s demand, the JPC will not probe the CWG and the Adarsh housing scams.

At the meeting, the modalities of announcing a JPC were hammered out, but what made a larger political point was the demonstration of a second wind by the Prime Minister and his proactive outlook to end a seeming governance paralysis in the UPA.

?We are looking forward to a fruitful and productive session of Parliament. The government is willing to discuss all issues that the Opposition raises. I’m hopeful that this will be a peaceful, productive session of Parliament. A lot of legislative work has to be accomplished. The Budget of the central government has to be passed. The Budget Session is the most important session of Parliament,? Singh said as he came out of the meeting.

Top sources in the government said the Prime Minister after having declared in his press conference on Wednesday that he was willing to face a JPC, wanted to give out the message that if Parliament did not run after the government?s concession it would be purely due to the obduracy of the Opposition.

?All the action taken against corruption, and the Prime Minister?s own press conference have made it clear that the government now wants to tell the public that it has nothing to hide and that its back in business,? said a top official.

At the all party meeting meanwhile it was decided that the Prime Minister would introduce a resolution conceding a JPC and read out a small statement to that effect, after which there would be a discussion on the matter.

The composition of the JPC is still up for grabs with the four left parties having already written to the Speaker to be treated as one block for the purposes of Parliamentary voting. Which means that despite at least three of the parties getting less than two MPs into the Lok Sabha, they might still get to be members of the JPC.

?We have to work out the modalities and let the session begin,? Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.