Archive for July, 2008
Singh is King: UPA govt wins confidence vote
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday, ensuring the immediate survival of the ruling coalition and a civilian nuclear deal with the United States.
Earlier the opposition demanded the resignation of the prime minister anyway after three of its lawmakers said they had been bribed to abstain. The […]
P. Chidambaram says Hyde Act not binding on India
On the second day of the debate in the Lok Sabha over the Government’s trust vote, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that the Hyde Act, passed by the US Congress to enable nuclear commerce with India, was a domestic law in that country and had no binding on India.
Chidambaram also stressed the need for nuclear […]
Trust motion was fully avoidable, says Manmohan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought the confidence of the Lok Sabha on Monday and said the trust vote was avoidable as he had promised to return to the Parliament before operationalising the contentious nuclear deal with Washington.
“It (trust motion) was fully avoidable,” Manmohan Singh said as he moved the one-line motion seeking the trust of […]