Sonia Gandhi, the usually reserved and poised leader of the ruling Congress party,
leapt from her front-bench seat in parliament last week to grab back a
document that a Member of Parliament (MP) had snatched from a government
minister's hands.
She caught the MP
by the arm, some media reports said, but failed to retrieve the document
before it was torn up. A minor scuffle ensued between members of Congress and the offending lawmaker's Samajwadi Party (SP).
The extraordinary drama lasted less than a minute.
But it illustrated
the vulnerability of a government that, now reduced to a minority in
parliament, depends for its survival on unreliable allies like the SP.
Not only will they hamper further economic reform, they could bring the
government down and trigger a general election before it is due in 2014...read more.
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