well well well looks like we might have elections in 2011
Cong banks on poll threat to break House impasse - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: With the focus now shifting from the blocked Winter session to the budget, Congress held out the threat of early elections in a bid to thwart a repeat of the Opposition blockade of Parliament even though it has time till February to sort out contentious issues.
The "threat" was first employed to persuade the Opposition to give up its no-JPC-no-parliament stance. At a meeting with BJP leaders
L K Advani,
Sushma Swaraj and
Arun Jaitley, finance minister
Pranab Mukherjee has snapped that if Parliament was not going to function, it would be better to dissolve the Lok Sabha.
UPA on its last legs, says Arun Jaitley, predicts early general elections - India - DNA
Buoyed by its success in stalling Parliament over the mobile telephony spectrum scandal and the victory of its alliance with the Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, the BJP today said the United Progressive Alliance government was unlikely to last its full term and the National Democratic Alliance to prepare for the next general elections.
"We are at a strange crossroads," Arun Jaitley, leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said. "Till a few weeks ago, I used to say we have to prepare for the 2014 general elections. Today I am not willing to say with any element of certainty or confidence that the next election will only be in 2014.
"I don't think the government, which is almost tripping by the day, can sustain the three and a half years or four years which are left," he said.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268544
Script Gone Awry
[*]Opposition’s JPC demand on 2G scam wipes out winter session of Parliament
[*]Manmohan Singh's “Mr Clean” image hit by 2G and Supreme Court rap
[*]Appointment of new CVC P.J. Thomas balloons into major row
[*]Bihar assembly results show diminishing returns for Rahul Gandhi
[*]Two key states in 2009 victory, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra, look wobbly
[*]Andhra citadel breached by Jaganmohan Reddy's revolt and exit
[*]Washout in UP panchayat poll, coming in behind BSP, SP, BJP brings grim forebodings
[*]Slew of scams led by CWG, Adarsh dent social schemes, hurt image among urban middle class
[*]Trouble brews with key ally DMK in Tamil Nadu ahead of assembly poll. Ties with NCP tenuous.
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It has been a terrible November for the Congress party. Just as soon as US President Barack Obama departed from New Delhi on November 9 after telling MPs that this was a great country that deserved a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, India under Congress watch began to look like a Scam Republic. The scale and stench of the 2G scandal spread further, the PM’s apparent inaction was questioned by the Supreme Court and the winter session of Parliament lost in the din of an opposition determined to draw more blood. The Congress appeared to be consumed by chaos, corruption and crises.
Do you think that the nda will win this time if elections happen in the next 6 months?