After two days of stormy debate, lawmakers in the Lok Sabha voted in
favour of the government's big policy decision to open up the
country's highly-protected retail industry to foreign chains such as
Walmart. 471 of the Lok Sabha's 545 members voted; 253 MPs voted
against the BJP motion that challenged the policy and 218 voted for
it.
Immediately after, the government also won a crucial vote on
amendments to Foreign Exchange Management Act or FEMA, needed to
operationalise FDI in various sectors.
The government has said reforms have won and India Inc is cheering.
The majority mark in Lok Sabha was brought down from 273 to 251 by
the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party, which provide
external support to the Manmohan Singh government, walking out to help
the government. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had a made a
strong speech against FDI in retail in the Lok Sabha and the BSP had
suggested that the government not rush into implementing it.
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