??The UPA won but the country and democracy lost. The vote of trust for the government has come at the expense of trust among the people in our parliamentary system.?? This is how the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal described the outcome of the two day debate on confidence motion in the Lok Sabha which concluded last night.
Taking a serious view of party MP Sukh Dev Singh Libra’s abstention during the trust vote, Badal said stringent action would be taken against him.
If the ruling alliance had not subverted free and fair democratic exercise through corrupt practices, horse-trading etc., and if the MPs had voted according to their party alignments before the LS session started, the UPA would have lost, Badal added.
Meanwhile, SAD MP Sukhdev Singh Libra’s advisor and son Ranbir Singh Libra said his father abstained and criticised the party for its “double standards” on the nuclear deal.