Government faces cut motion in House

The UPA government's strength in the Lok Sabha may be put to test when Parliament resumes for the second phase of the Budget  session today with the opposition planning to move a cut motion on price rise.

While the Congress is seeing the opposition's plan to move a cut motion as its biggest threat, the UPA will have to fight the onslaught of a united opposition on several other issues as the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will move the Finance Bill today.

However, Parliamentary Affairs minister P K Bansal has appealed to the opposition to support smooth running of Parliament.

"Yes we may just have a wafer thin majority but we have a majority this is known and we can't understand why the opposition is behaving like this stalling and destabilising the government," Bansal said.

He added that, "We would appeal to every member that in view of the progress the country has made, in view of the quick recovery that we've registered after the economic downturn the world over. So all members should be supporting the government's move on that."

Source : http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/government-faces-cut-motion-in-house-20028.php