On Wednesday, the Congress-led government won a key vote on the decision in the lower house.
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But two constituents of the United Front have so far refused to support a Congress-led government.
Even as fuel got dearer--Nepal imports all its requirements from India--the outgoing Nepali Congress-led government dithered to the last in raising prices.
The Congress-led government initially refused the demand but agreed later after its allies pledged support in the event of a parliamentary vote.
The Congress-led government is hoping that a regional party will help them survive a vote of confidence and fend off early elections.
Over the past eight years, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance has promised universal education and 100 days of employment each year for rural workers.
The Congress-led government said the protesters had been detained because they had not accepted the police's restrictions on the number of fasting days and participants.
Parliament's approval for the bill would permit the release of huge quantities of grain from the government's overflowing storage sites at near giveaway prices and is expected to become a big vote-winner for the Congress party-led coalition government, which faces a general election in early 2014.
Besides, having the JD(U)'s backing could help the Congress party-led coalition in the national election.
The DMK party's 18 MPs will not support the Congress party-led government.
The regional DMK party, which withdrew its support last week, has 18 MPs and held five ministerial posts in the Congress party-led government.
The move is being seen as an attempt to get younger politicians into the Congress Party-led government ahead of national elections in 2014.
This budget was a test of whether Manmohan Singh's Congress Party-led government, which surprised even itself by winning last year's election, would confront these challenges.
Correspondents say the scheme, together with some other populist measures announced by the Congress party-led government, helped the coalition return to power in the 2009 elections.
Mr Kejriwal has also sought a clarification from the Congress party-led government in the state of Haryana on the alleged concessions it gave to the company.
The cabinet of the Congress party-led coalition agreed last week to allow foreign multibrand retailers to own up to 51% of joint ventures and open supermarkets in India.
The power issues spell more trouble for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who heads the Congress Party-led coalition government and was the architect of the 1991 reforms that ended years of Soviet-style economic planning.
However, Bush fared slightly better on that score than members of the GOP-led Congress.
The Democratic-led Congress hopes to pass health care measures by the end of the year.
President Bush and the Republican-led Congress have rejected mandatory efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the case should not be handled by the Republican-led Congress.
The Republican-led Congress can help the president steer the national political debate in one direction or another.
Last year, in the final days of a Republican-led Congress, lawmakers made what some consider a serious mistake.
Until now the Republican-led Congress had balked at fully funding his request.
Capuano supports "patients' rights" health care legislation and a single-payer system, although he concedes the latter is a tough sell in a Republican-led Congress.
Both President Obama and the GOP-led Congress failed yet again this week to abide by these principles as they apply to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Libya.
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In a few days' time, Mr Garcia will visit President Bush in Washington to try to ratify a free trade agreement which has been thrown into doubt by the Democrat-led congress.
The centre-left Ettakatol and the secular Congress for the Republic led by President Moncef Marzouki - the same parties that formed the previous cabinet - remain in the coalition.
In September, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress had pulled out of the coalition government protesting a decision to allow foreign retailers set up shop in India.
In 1996, when President Clinton vetoed a set of fiscal reforms from the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Congress, the resultant government shutdown forced Republicans into a free-spending crouch for the remainder of their time in the majority.
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