{"id":3796,"date":"2008-07-12T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/07\/12\/all-eyes-on-smaller-parties\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:38:23","slug":"all-eyes-on-smaller-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/all-eyes-on-smaller-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on smaller parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>With the Left parties withdrawing support to the UPA government at the Centre, several Independent parliamentarians, single-MP parties and regional parties now hold the key for survival of Dr. Manmohan Singh\u2019s ministry. The UPA government announced that the vote of confidence would take place on July 22. A two-day special session of Parliament will start July 21.<br \/>The Northeast states has 25 MPs in the current 543-member Lok Sabha. Of the total 25 MPs, the Congress has 11 MPs, BJP- 4, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) -2, CPM-2, NCP-1, Mizo National Front (MNF) -1, NPF-1, Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)-1 and Independents -2. <br \/>The NPF has reportedly decided to vote against the motion in the Lok Sabha. <br \/>\u201cThe party president has directed the Lok Sabha MP W. Wangyuh Konyak to vote against the motion,\u201d an NPF sources disclosed.&nbsp; <br \/>Manipur\u2019s Independent MP Mani Charenamai said it was too early to say whom he would support in case of a vote of confidence. \u201cI am observing the situation&#8230; I think the deal is in the interest of the nation as the country is facing energy crisis,\u201d Charenamai told a newspaper.<br \/>Mizoram\u2019s lone Lok Sabha member Vanlalzawma said he would abide by the decision of his party Mizo National Front.<br \/>AGP, which has two MPs, Thursday decided to oppose the nuclear deal and vote against the confidence motion if tabled in Parliament. <br \/>The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) had Thursday announced from Gangtok that it would vote for the motion in Lok Sabha.<br \/>Independent MP from Assam\u2019s Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar constituency S K Bwiswmuthiary said the withdrawal of support by the Left parties to the Central government was \u201cunfortunate\u201d and he wanted the UPA government to last its full term. <br \/>At the same time, Bwiswmuthiary said he was not happy with the performance of Assam\u2019s Congress government.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Left parties withdrawing support to the UPA government at the Centre, several Independent parliamentarians, single-MP parties and regional parties now hold the key for survival of Dr. Manmohan Singh\u2019s ministry. The UPA government announced that the vote of confidence would take place on July 22. A two-day special session of Parliament will start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}