Ahead of the Union cabinet reshuffle, the DMK, a key member of the ruling UPA, has declined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's offer of two cabinet or a few minister of state berths for the party. The PM on Tuesday despatched minister of state in the PMO V Narayanasamy to meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi and make the offer. But senior DMK leaders said Karunanidhi conveyed to the minister that he was at the moment not interested in recommending any party representative for inclusion in the Union cabinet. Narayanasamy met Karunanidhi at his CIT Colony residence in Chennai for about 30 minutes during which he discussed the PM's offer. After the exit of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, which has 19 MPs, from the UPA, the DMK with 18 representatives in the Lok Sabha is the Congress' largest ally.

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