India's Congress party is meeting to discuss a key ally's withdrawal from the government over plans to open the retail sector to global supermarket chains and other reforms.
The Trinamool Congress party led by Mamata Banerjee has said that its six ministers will resign from the coalition on Friday.
Ms Banerjee said her 19 MPs would not back the coalition in parliament.
Correspondents say the government's support is not yet at risk.
The central government still has the support of more than 300 MPs and needs 272 to stay in power.
Reports say the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi is meeting party leaders in Delhi to discuss the fallout of the Trinamool Congress's withdrawal from the government.
Correspondents say the fate of the government will largely depend now on its other regional allies - the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.
The two parties - rivals in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh - have over 40 MPs between them and have been supporting the government without joining it.
The Congress could continue to run a minority government with their support, or could even ask them to join the government, correspondents say.
The BBC's Amitabha Bhattasali in Calcutta says that Ms Banerjee's move on Tuesday evening was made in part because her bedrock support in West Bengal - the lower-middle classes - is furious about the possibility of foreign investment taking away much-needed jobs.
Our correspondent says her supporters also blame the central government for a 14% rise in the price of diesel earlier this month and for similar rises in the price of cooking gas.
Delhi's supermarket plan is aimed at reviving a flagging economy, but small shops fear they will be put out of business.
19 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19645144#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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