Some worry that her relations with Congress have become so dire that her own Trinamool party may leave the coalition.
When she returned to India in September and resumed her duties as president of the ruling Congress Party, the immediate crisis appeared to stabilise.
Mrs Gandhi's Congress party, headed by her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi, is in power in India at the moment and the paper suggests distributors may not be willing to antagonise it.
Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, won a hotly contested battle for the succession, largely because leaders of the Congress party thought they could manipulate her from behind the scenes.
The lower house, or Lok Sabha, was mostly empty when the vote took place, reports said, with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son and party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi - as well as other senior ministers - prominent among the absentees.
Sonia Gandhi was unanimously re-elected President of India's Congress Party for the fourth time in 2010, making her the longest serving chief in the party's history.
India's Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi has refused to furnish details of her income tax, citing "security" concerns, officials say.
Sonia Gandhi, his mother and president of the ruling Congress Party, is similarly reticent, perhaps stemming from early anxiety over her facility in Hindi and a wish to avoid personal attacks over her Italian birth.
The Hindu enclave was a canny choice by her faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI by its Indonesian initials) to hold its party congress.
Her frustration has grown to disenchantment with the Republican Party, which she says only supports big business and eventually led to her decision to run for Congress as a Democrat.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is leader of the Trinamool Congress party, another major Congress ally, is also against the decision to open up India's retail sector but whether her party would help defeat the government remains unclear.
In her first public speech since being treated for an undisclosed illness over the summer, Sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress party, called on the opposition to allow Parliament to work so it can pass the anti-graft legislation.
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