Will the government opt for early general elections?

The official line in the Congress is that the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government will complete its term, completing a decade in office next year. But unofficially, Congressmen are beginning to say that the impact of the events of the last few days — the DMK’s exit from the government on the Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue, the Samajwadi Party’s spat with the Congress over Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma’s impolitic comment on its leader, Mulayam Singh, and the CBI raids on Thursday morning at the residence of the DMK’s heir apparent M.K. Stalin — may just compel the government to consider holding the next general elections at the end of 2013, rather than in April-May 2014.

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