UPA Govt. wins trust vote by huge margin, to go ahead with India-US nuclear deal

"It is a kind of an agreement between two individuals and one happens to be the Prime Minister," the BJP leader said.

Advani also launched a personal attack on the prime minister, saying he would not dare take a single step without the permission or approval of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi. "I have seen instable governments but I have never seen a government so paralyzed," he said.

However, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee backed the nuclear deal, saying it would "open the door and end 30 years isolation of nuclear technology."

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram also said the nuclear deal would help India emerge as an economic superpower. "This government under Dr. Manmohan Singh's leadership is charting out a new path which will end India's nuclear isolation, which will pave the way for India becoming an economic power, an economic superpower," he said.

Taking a dig at the Left parties, Chidambaram added, "There are some people in India who do not want us to catch up with China. There are some people in this country who do not want us to get ahead of China."

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad also lauded the prime minister, saying, "It's a very courageous step to take a trust vote on one's own accord."