The confidence vote in numbers

Reuters has put together a factbox, to help us understand who stands where in the confidence vote, which is expected to take place on Tuesday.

Although there is a massive degree of uncertainty, as both the government and the opposition are fighting to the last minute to secure (or buy) the vote of independent MPs, Reuters’ data gives us an idea of who are the key parties and MPs in a confidence vote that will decide the future of the government.

TOI poll: Should the UPA government survive?

Seventy-seven per cent of Times of India’s online readers believe that the Congress-led government of Manmohan Singh will survive tomorrow’s confidence vote.

Read what some of the people participating in the debate/poll have to say on the present government:

Chidambaram’s dialectic approach to the Nuclear deal

In a comment piece in the Hindustan Times on Sunday, India’s finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram makes his case in favour of the nuclear deal by adopting a dialectic approach: