India's prime minister has long been regarded as the consummate non-politician, a sober technocrat more comfortable with the arcane details of economic policy than the rough-and-tumble world of Indian politics.
But with his government facing a too-close-to-call confidence vote Tuesday over its landmark nuclear energy deal with the United States, Indians are about to find out just how savvy a politician Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can be.
In recent weeks, Singh and top officials of his Congress Party have reassured vacillating allies, wooed old enemies and brought wayward members back into line. When all else failed, they cut whatever deals they could: …
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