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"Notwithstanding the SP backing, Congress will need to garner support of 4-5 additional MPs to save the government in the floor test. The prevalent situation has already triggered in horse-trading making strange bed-fellows in the politics," the editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamana said.
By jolting the government on the issue of the nuke deal with the US, the Left parties in India had demonstrated their blind pro-China tilt despite tacit support to the pact from Beijing, it added.
Instead of indulging in the numbers game to survive, the Congress-led UPA government should dissolve the Lok Sabha and call for fresh elections to seek the people's mandate on contentious issues, the editorial commented.
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