UPA confident of forming the next government
With 261 seats in it’s bag, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), is confident of getting support of 11 additional MPs to cross the magic number of 272 needed for a majority in the parliament. Speculation is rife in main stream media that the parties that constituted the fourth front (RJD,SP and LJP) will not be invited to support the UPA government; instead the UPA will rely on like-minded independents and smaller parties to make up for the shortfall.
Apart from the Congress party that won 206 seats on it’s own, the UPA consists of Sharad Pawar’s NCP, M. Karunanidhi’s DMK, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference, who won the remaining 55. Leaders of these four parties are expected to be part of the new cabinet. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also expected to join the cabinet.
The PM, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will give his resignation to the President on Monday who will ask him to continue as the interim-PM. The Election Commission will present the list of successful Lok sabha candidates to President Pratibha Patil on Monday evening.
Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected to be sworn in as the PM either on 20 or 22 May 2009.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:15 am
RSS TO BLAME . BJP has lost again , when will they ever learn that in order to win you must listen to the public and not the RSS. Yes ADVANI should resign along with Rajnath but so too should the RSS leaders who are hiding behind the scenes pulling their strings. The blame lies fairly and squarely at their doorstep. Get rid of the RSS leadership and then we will have a truly Hindu party under a renewed dynamic BJP.