New Delhi: The UPA Government will seek a trial of strength in the Lok Sabha on July 22 with a confident Congress President Sonia Gandhi asserting "we shall prove our majority".
Sonia Gandhi said it was time for the UPA "to look ahead" after Left's exit and praised Samajwadi Party for supporting the coalition.
"I have no doubt that we shall prove our majority," she said in her opening remarks at a meeting of the UPA Coordination Committee where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh explained the developments related to the nuclear deal.
The trust vote comes in the wake of Left parties with 59 members withdrawing support to the Government for going to the IAEA to take forward the Indo-US nuclear deal.
As the numbers game intensified, top UPA leaders on Friday held a strategy session here with Sonia Gandhi, expressing confidence of garnering numbers to prove their majority.
The meeting, which was attended by representatives of most of the UPA constituents, assessed the numbers that the ruling coalition has on its side after the departure of Left parties, whose dissociation was regretted by Sonia Gandhi.
A highlight of the meeting was the presence of JMM MP Hemlal Murmu amid speculation that the five-MP strong Jharkhand outfit was unhappy with the Congress after its supremo Shibu Soren was not re-inducted in the Government.
LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan was not present at the meeting as he is away in London. Also absent was AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who was attending to some family matter in Hyderabad.
Sonia Gandhi thanked the Left parties "who have been with us during these last four years" and said without their support the UPA could not have been formed and "a good deal" of what has been "achieved" would not have been possible.
"Unfortunately, we could not carry them with us on thenuclear agreement despite our best efforts. While we regret their withdrawal of support, it is now time to look ahead," she said.
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