By IANS,
New Delhi : Senior Congress leader and home minister Shivraj Patil Tuesday asserted that the government was “comfortable” with the numbers in the Lok Sabha to prove majority.
In reply to a question from reporters in parliament house Patil said: “It is a comfortable situation”.
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is facing a trust vote Tuesday evening after Left parties withdrew their outside support over the India-US nuclear deal.
Patil’s cabinet colleague, rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, also expressed the confidence of the UPA government to stay in power.
Singh, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal is a major constituent of the UPA, said the coalition government enjoys the support of 275 MPs. The halfway mark is 271 if all MPs are present and voting.