NEW DELHI:The UPA government at center led by Congress party Tuesday won the trust vote on nuclear deal issue with a comfortable margin of 19 votes.

The Parliament witnessed pandemonium by opposition members during the debate on nuclear deal. The UPA government led by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh won the vote 275-256, with 10 abstentions, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee announced.

The victory of UPA is considered significant after left parties withdrew support from UPA and sought to cancel the nuclear deal with USA. The Samajswadi Party led by Mulayam Singh Yadav had extended support to UPA at the crucial juncture.

The votes the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) eventually gained were more than the 271 needed to prove majority in the 545-member house where two seats are vacant and a member is barred from voting.

Jubilation broke out at Congress party headquarters as the result was announced. The emphatic 19-vote margin of victory now paves the way for the implementation of the landmark nuclear deal.

The government recorded a comfortable majority with the support from the regional Samajwadi Party and other smaller parties that offset the loss of 59 left-wing MPs in the UPA.

Crucial to the UPA victory was the fact that ten lMP's, most of them from BJP abstained from voting.

A defeat for the UPA would have led to early elections by November in the country that faces slower economic growth and double-digit inflation. It would have also spelt the death of the nuclear deal.

Shortly after the UPA victory, Singh declared that the convincing win would ensure that India would take its place in the comity of nations with the implementation of the nuclear deal.

'This vote shows that India is prepared to take its rightful place in the comity of nations,' the PM told reporters after emerging from the Parliament House.

The nuclear agreement would allow the US to trade fissile materials and technology with India, ending a three-decade ban. India would in turn, open its civilian nuclear reactors to international inspections.

India has to reach a country-specific safeguards agreement with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) before the deal is ratified by the US Congress. A meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors to discuss a draft agreement has been scheduled for August 1.

The 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which controls the global trade in fissile materials, would also be required to change its rules as well before the deal could be implemented.