> Manmohan rips advani apart!

"tum agar mujhko na chaho to kuch baat nahin, tum agar kisi aur ko chahoge to baat hogi"

Originally Posted by Bluffmaster

I am sure he lifted it from somewhere Awesome quote though.

Originally Posted by Ninja

Yesterday was really an action packed day. Did u guys see the MPs showing off the bundles of notes in the house. What a shame!

Manmohan Singh may have described UPA's victory in the trust vote as "impressive", but the voting pattern shows that the victory really came about thanks to 'cross-voting’, otherwise known as horsetrading.

As many as 14 MPs defied their parties to favour the trust vote, while four went against the whip by abstaining and three simply stayed away. Had all of these MPs voted according to their respective party’s diktats, the MPs in favour of the motion would have been 261, those against 277!

Six Samajwadi Party MPs also went against the party whip and voted against the government, as did Kuldeep Bishnoi of Congress. But even if these MPs had all voted for UPA in the trust vote, the final tally would still not have been enough to catch up with those voting against the government.

The biggest victim of cross-voting was NDA, BJP in particular. As many as five BJP MPs — Somabhai Patel from Gujarat, K Manjunath and H T Sangliana (Karnataka), Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh from UP and Chandrabhan Singh from MP — voted for the government. Another BJP MP — Manorama Madhwaraj from Karnataka — abstained, while Babubhai Katara from Gujarat and Harisingh Rathod from Maharashtra simply didn’t turn up for the vote. Another party MP from Chikmagalur in Karnataka, D C Srikantappa, was also absent, but in his case it was because of a genuinely serious illness.

The JD(U)'s Ramswaroop Prasad from Bihar was another NDA member who voted for the government, while his party colleague P P Koya of Lakshadweep stayed away. BJD's Harihar Swain also defied his party whip. Another alliance constituent, NPF, could do little to prevent its lone MP Wangyuh Konyak from supporting the trust vote. The Akali Dal also was unable to prevent Sukhdev Singh Libra from abstaining.

Apart from NDA, TDP saw one party MP, M Jagannath voting for the government and another, D K Audikesavulu, choosing to abstain. UPA had already sewn up TRS’s A Narendra who voted for it despite his party whip. That was true also of two MDMK members, L Ganesan and Gingee Ramachandran, as well as NLP's Baleshwar Yadav.