The last coalition fell because Congress and the United Front could not sort out their rivalry.
But two constituents of the United Front have so far refused to support a Congress-led government.
If the Blok goes on winning more votes, the united front against it may break.
Deve Gowda, who heads the United Front minority coalition, has been trying to woo Congress dissidents to achieve a majority in Parliament.
The Tamil Maanila Congress, a constituent of the United Front, had walked out after its leader lost the prime ministerial race to Mr Gujral.
India has already shown, when the United Front took over from Congress, that political change does not necessarily mean either policy reversal or paralysis.
In India, the United Front coalition headed by Prime Minister I.
The BJP and its allies thus face a formidable task to come to power this time, though divisions within Congress and the United Front will make things easier for them.
Meanwhile, waiting for the right moment to grab power is Sitaram Kesri, leader of the Congress party, which helps keep the United Front in power through its support in Parliament.
BJP-led alliance ends up with 240 seats or so, it would be strongly placed to attract 35 defectors from Congress and the United Front and thus put together a majority.
The president says he will also hold talks with the United Front, which formed the outgoing government, and the Congress party, which supported it until the end of last year.
Quite possibly, therefore, the real reason Mr Kesri has decided to up-end the United Front government is not because it was doing badly, but because it was doing unexpectedly well.
It seems as if India's influential Planning Commission realised this when it warned that the poor state of the country's economy was being forgotten amid the political crisis being faced by the United Front government.
Nehru's Congress party, a dynastic movement which governed for most of the past five decades and whose tacit support keeps the United Front in power, no longer seems capable of forming a government on its own.
Since Mr Dissanayake defected to the United National Front before the elections, he has been one of the president's fiercest critics.
It would have been "virtually impossible" for him to order anyone -- including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the rebel group in Sierra Leone -- to carry out such actions, Taylor said, because he was too occupied with running his own country.
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However, Judge Lussick said in return for a constant flow of diamonds, Taylor provided arms and both logistical and moral support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels - prolonging the conflict and the suffering of the people of Sierra Leone.
Two weeks ago, the Congress party declared it would stop propping up the minority United Front government unless it dropped one of its coalition partners, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (a regional party).
It claimed thousands of lives as rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), supported by Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, took over the countryside and eventually seized Freetown before being ousted by British and other foreign forces.
Analysts say Mr Wickramasinghe's list of ministers looks like a compromise to please every faction of the United National Front.
But a complicating factor is that his party is allied to Funcinpec through the National United Front, formed early last year.
The World Food Programme is considered the United Nations' front-line agency in the fight against hunger.
Last year, the United States blacklisted the Nusra Front as a foreign terror organization.
Publicly, the Pritzker defendants present a united front against the two youngsters.
As the crowd in front of the United Methodist building in Washington, D.
The secretary-general plans to bring the matter in front of the United Nations on his return.
Roeder opted to utilise the experience of Dion Dublin up front and the former Manchester United striker almost put his side in front on seven minutes but was denied by a brilliant save from keeper Neil Alexander.
The opposition put up a united front when AMs discussed the first draft of Labour's budget last week.
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And that's the great issue in front of the United States Senate.
Bar'wani won the Lindi Town constituency seat as a candidate for the opposition Civic United Front.
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