Govt plans IAEA trip after House vote July 21-22

New Delhi, July 8 Ending their tempestuous relationship of over four years, the Left parties today announced withdrawal of support to the UPA over the Indo-US nuclear deal and asked the President to direct the Prime Minister to prove his majority in the House. Within hours, the Samajwadi Party officially came out in support of the deal and the Government, confident that it had rustled the numbers, said it would seek a trust vote at a special session — The Indian Express has learnt that it’s most likely on July 21 or 22, almost three weeks before the monsoon session starts August 11 — and then aproach the IAEA to push the deal.

“We will seek the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha as soon as we receive a formal communication from Rashtrapati Bhavan. We can operationalise (the deal) only after obtaining the vote of confidence. On an international agreement like this, we cannot bind the Government and the country... we would like to seek the approval of the IAEA Board of Governors the moment we seek the vote of confidence, that is why we would like to expedite the process,” External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters, adding he had spoken over phone to the Prime Minister who is in Japan for the G8 Summit.

Earlier, the Left parties, pointing to the Prime Minister’s statement that the Government would “very soon” approach the IAEA to move forward on the deal, announced that the “time has come” to pull the plug.

The four parties — CPM, CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP — have sought an appointment with President Pratibha Patil tomorrow morning to submit their letter of withdrawal of support, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters.

With the support of 39 SP MPs, the UPA is confident of crossing the simple majority number of 272 in the Lok Sabha. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said: “I am very confident that in any test on the floor of the House, we will come out with flying colours.” Other than the SP, the Government is counting on support from Govt plans IAEA trip after House vote July 21-22

the JD(S), RLD, Independents and hoping that the Akalis and some others from the NDA abstain.

The SP parliamentary party today endorsed chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s decision to “save” the UPA Government over the nuclear deal issue. But two SP MPs, Munawar Hasan and Jai Prakash Rawat, have fallen out with...

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Govt plans IAEA trip after House vote July 21-22

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