Highly placed sources said Farooq Abdullah, who played a crucial role in bridging the gap between the Congress and the NC with his proximity to 10 Janpath, spoke to Omar Abdullah late Tuesday evening informing him that the crisis had been resolved and that he must come to New Delhi on Wednesday.
After Tuesday's late evening meeting at Ambika Soni's residence in New Delhi, the Kashmir ministers returned to winter capital Jammu on Wednesday.
Omar Abdullah had walked out of the cabinet sub-committee meeting here on January 24 after its Congress members told him the report on their recommendations was still not ready.
The cabinet meeting was re-scheduled for February 1 without conducting any other business as Omar Abdullah said he would go ahead with the creation of new administrative units across the state at "any cost".
The chief minister also said the next meeting of the cabinet would conduct no other business except discussing the cabinet sub-committee's report, for which Omar Abdullah had reluctantly given a week's time to be submitted.
Even though the crisis seems to have been averted, the larger issue of whether or not the two should announce a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections still hangs fire.
