In the Lok Sabha, there are 10 men whose loyalties can be bought. They are ready to break away from their parties and swing the outcome in favour of the ruling alliance and they are all from the BJP-led National
Democratic Alliance (NDA).The men who may become part of Operation Rescue UPA on July 22, Tuesday, are:
- One MP from Shiv Sena
- Two MPs from JD(U) (Bihar)
- One from BJD (Orissa)
- And six MPs from BJP - two from Rajasthan, two from Karnataka and two from Gujarat
The Congress floor managers are targetting them, but the BJP is in denial mode.
The Congress knows that abstention is the surest way to win the trust vote. If 10 people don't vote or press the abstain button, the total of the house will come down to 530, bringing down the halfway mark to 265 - a figure the UPA insists it already has.
Right from the beginning there were doubts being expressed within the NDA on just how much to oppose the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. In the final analysis, it may be the abstentions within the oppositions' alliance which could turn out to be the saviour for the UPA Government.
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