MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The ongoing conditional access soap opera ended another day on an inconclusive note.

Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had an hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with law minister Arun Jaitley also present. Both Prasad and Jaitley maintained a stoic silence about the deliberations though.

It is learnt from official sources that the meeting at the prime minister's residence was to update the PM on the status of CAS implementation and discuss some legislative measures, but the meeting was "inconclusive."

What preceded the meeting had much more drama though. Rumours emanating from Shastri Bhavan said that the reason why Prasad had gone to meet the PM was to "brief him" on a plan to delay the implementation CAS by 18 months.

Well, till something more definite comes out about the latest on the vexed CAS affair, such speculation and rumours will continue to float.