07-18-2008, 05:29 AM
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Numbers are in flux. But the government is roughly a dozen votes short of the 272 majority.
There are around 20 MPs who are undecided, torn between supporting the opposition led by BJP and the Leftists on the one hand, and the Congress party-led coalition on the other.
"As of now, Congress does not have the assured support of the majority and therefore I would reduce its prospects further to around 50 pc," analyst Seema Desai of Eurasia consultancy wrote in an e-mail message.
"Right up till the vote, things could change" said Desai, who last week had given the government's survival chance at 70 per cent.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Co...-finish/336886/
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Numbers are in flux. But the government is roughly a dozen votes short of the 272 majority. There are around 20 MPs who are undecided, torn between supporting the opposition led by BJP and the Leftists on the one hand, and the Congress party-led coalition on the other.
"As of now, Congress does not have the assured support of the majority and therefore I would reduce its prospects further to around 50 pc," analyst Seema Desai of Eurasia consultancy wrote in an e-mail message.
"Right up till the vote, things could change" said Desai, who last week had given the government's survival chance at 70 per cent.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Co...-finish/336886/