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NEW DELHI-Indian communist parties said on Tuesday they were withdrawing support for the government after four years in protest against a civilian nuclear deal with the United States.The four parties, which say the deal makes India subservient to Washington, will call for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government.The government believes it will survive the vote, having secured parliamentary support from the regionally based Samajwadi Party. Political analysts say the vote could be as early as next week if the president decides.The leftists, whose support had secured Singh's parliamentary majority, had said they would withdraw if the government formally approached the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the next international step needed to make the delayed deal operational.On Monday, Singh said that move would come "very soon". The left reacted as expected. "That time has come," Prakash Karat, head of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), India's biggest communist party, told reporters.Singh, in Japan this week for a G8 summit where he is expected to tell President George W. Bush that the deal will go ahead, three years after they shook hands at the White House, shrugged off fears for his government."I just learned it (about the withdrawal). But I don't think it will affect the stability of our government," Singh said in Sapporo, where he was meeting the leaders of other big emerging economies on the summit sidelines.To read more go to:
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