By Mukesh Ranjan New Delhi July 4: As part of a strategy to pre-empt the Opposition from bringing no-confidence motion against the government in an event of the Left parties withdrawing support over the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal, the ruling Congress managers are working overtime on a plan to seek a vote of confidence on the floor of the House. Since Speaker Somnath Chatterjee would be travelling to Malaysia till August 10 to attend the meeting of the Commonwealth Association of parliamentarians and to avoid deputy-Speaker Charanjeet Singh Atwal, who is a BJP MP, chairing the Lok Sabha, the government has, however, decided to call the monsoon session of the Parliament only after the Speaker’s arrival. Sources close to the Congress strategy team revealed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a series consultations...
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