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Now that the votes been won

  • 14/08/2008

Government can bare its pro-industry fangs
many epithets, dripping with political morality a-characteristic of the event, were used to describe what transpired in Parliament on July 22, 2008, when the Congress-led upa managed to win a life-saving vote of trust in the Lok Sabha. But everyone acknowledged this day would change a lot of things for the country. Talk of bribery, intimidation and horse-trading was rife in the build-up to July 22. The day ended with bundles of currencies being tabled inside the Lok Sabha.
The Congress party was successfully able to project the crisis as one that took place because of differences on the Indo- us nuclear deal. But it was anything but the nuclear deal. What was strange was the Left parties also fell into this trap. More to the purpose,

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