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The trust vote

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has one ‘last chance’ to prove his commitment to the nation. If he wins the trust vote, he should immediately seek the dissolution of the Lok Sabha and go for snap polls, confining the so-called small parties which went for reckless bargaining for power and pelf, into the dustbin. Since all these parties were busy with their own ‘deals’ and never bothered about the merits of the nuclear deal, trust or no trust meant nothing to them. Their deals, after all, arose out of many shameful inner deals.

Nisha Gopalan,

Chennai

Even if the government is able to scrape through the trust vote, it is morally bound to resign immediately thereafter to seek a mandate again. Hired horses may not pull its chariot for a long distance.

Tarsem Singh,

New Delhi

Let bygones be bygones. We all know that it is not a trust vote on the UPA government, but on the nuclear deal. May the MPs think over it well and cast their votes according to their conscience.

M.A.Mohamed Sahul Hameed,

Vellore

I wish to express my disappointment over the kind of tactics used by both the supporters and the opponents of the confidence motion. The tactics have made a mockery of the people’s mandate. The Congress seems ready to pay any price. It seems the party is aware that it cannot come back to power after the next polls. The BJP has not said clearly whether it is in favour of the nuclear deal or not.

Yogesh Jain,

Jaipur

One quality all the political parties have displayed equally pertains to horse-trading to somehow succeed in their intentions to make or break the government. Whoever wins the vote on July 22, democracy and the Indian people will be the losers.

B.Harish,

Mangalore

The Congress, with a little over 150 seats in Parliament, has been behaving as if it has the absolute majority vis-À-vis the nuclear deal. The BJP’s opposition is entirely due to the government’s attitude towards the opposition.

J.R. Kamath,

Coonoor

Mr. Advani should make a graceful statement that the BJP fully endorses the bold stand taken by Dr. Singh in utter disregard of his allies-till-yesterday. After all, the BJP is not fully and cannot be against the nuclear deal. Its present stand of calling upon the Congress to prove its majority will prove to be its fatal and greatest historical blunder.

V.T. Vasudevan,

Chengalpattu

The four years of governance of the nation has been marked by a mature political discourse. But statesmanship now has been compelled to take a back seat. This is bound to be too taxing for the democratic system and governance. Dissent is the essence of any polity, but it is all about probing the best of all that is good, bad and ugly.

P.Venu,

Kakinada

The trust vote has all the ingredients and hypes of a Twenty20 cricket match. The score board often keeps fluctuating, depending upon the shifting of numbers. Indian politics is witnessing some of the worst kind of shifting loyalties, wheeling-dealing and dinner diplomacy. All this will definitely have a bearing on the coming general election.

R.K. Kutty,

Bhopal

It is doubtful if most of the MPs who are going to vote for or against the government know the pros and cons of the nuclear deal, as are most of the people of the country.

K.K. Cherian,

Bangalore

The country is going in the right direction economically. Political instability should not mar the country’s development. Multi-party system and coalition governments are two sides of the coin. Instability is an inherent part of the multi-party system. Of late, opportunism has gained upper hand and every overambitious politician wants to become chief minister/prime minister overnight. The time has come to think of a two-party system for the Indian democratic system.

R. Sarva Jagannadha Reddy,

Tirupati

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