But, Manmohan is an honourable man!

Three trust motions over the last 20 years went down to the wire. PV Narasimha Rao survived the first in 1993 by seven votes, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee lost in 1999 by one vote and Mr Manmohan Singh managed to cross the halfway mark by three in 2008. The outcome of other recent trust votes, however, were either predictable (such as ‘humble farmer’ HD Deve Gowda’s comical “old man in a hurry” taunt of 1997), or voting never happened, as in the case of Mr Vajpayee’s 13-day Government in 1996 when he quit after a memorable flourish of rhetoric. 

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