Recent days have presented the unedifying spectacle of political parties indulging in what can only be described as a free-for-all.

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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>Two explanations are possible for what has been going on. One is that the price for supporting the government (or not supporting it, as the case may be) is plain cash, or a ministership, or a combination of the two. The other is that parties are looking beyond the trust vote, at the next Lok Sabha elections 

P>Recent days have presented the unedifying spectacle of political parties indulging in what can only be described as a free-for-all.

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