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Talks fail: Mid-term polls likely

Deve Gowda faces vote of confidence today
NEW DELHI. Apr 10: Talks to save the minority government failed today and Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda prepared to face a confidence vote in Parliament and if needed, go for mid-term polls, reports AP.
The powerful Congress Party, which decided to withdraw support to the ruling coalition, ordered its lawmakers to bring down the 10-month-old government in tomorrow's vote.
The collapse of the government almost certain, the 14-party coalition said it would urge the President to call for general elections.
Laloo Prasad Yadav, a key leader of the coalition, said the
talks with Congress had broken down.
"Talks are closed. It's all over," he told reporters. "We are ready for polls if the situation arises," he said. Elections were last held in May 1996. Elections this time, could be held in May. coalition leaders said in private.
A Congress spokesman, V N Gadgil. said his party remained adamant that the prime minister resign, and was setting a deadline for 11 am Friday (0530 GMT), when Parliament meets in an emergency session.
Voting is expected to be held after several hours of debate.
Earlier. Congress issued aFrom Page 1 three-line parliamentary whip ordering all its legislators to vote against the government.
Congress lawmakers "are requested to be present without fail, cancelling all their other engagements of whatever importance or urgency." it said. They must be ready to stay 'throughout the day until the motion is defeated.'
Negotiations between the Front and Congress to avert the crisis adjourned after barely one hour this morning, with no time set to resume. It was their second day of talks.
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, who led the United Front efforts to resolve the political crisis said Congress continued to insist that Gowda be replaced as prime minister. He said its calculations of splitting the Front had gone wrong and it was unable to save face.
Congress has accused Gowda of encouraging Hindu nationalists. It also blamed Gowda's economic policies for resulting in price increases and higher unemployment.
'The Congress has a one-point programme: We should replace Gowda. We told them
that change of leadership is not negotiable,'' Suijeet told a news conference attended by some 400 journalists.
Congress and its allies control about 140 seats in the 545-member tok Sabha. the lower house of parliament. The United Front — a coalition of 14 ¥arties — controls 186 seats, he Hindu revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition party, has 162. No single group has a clear majority.
Both the Congress and the Front say they want to keep out their . common foe. the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP.
Newspapers have speculated that the BJP may abstain in the vote to enable the Front to win a simple majority and block the Congress from any chance of assuming power.
Bharatiya Janata leader Lal Krishna Advani told a news conference. "We want to vote out this government and we also want to prevent the Congress from forming the government."
But the Bharatiya Janata also empowered party leader Atal Behari Vajpayee to decide the party's stand before the vote tomorrow.