Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Admits Opposition's No-Confidence Motion Against Govt

Om Birla admitted a no-confidence motion moved by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi against the Narendra Modi government after a head count of over 50 MPs as per the requirement under the rules.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts proceedings in the House during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi. ( Image Source :PTI )

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday admitted a no-confidence motion moved by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi against the Narendra Modi government after a head count of over 50 MPs as per the requirement under the rules, as reported by the news agency PTI. He said a date and time for discussion on it will be fixed by him after consultation with all parties.

After the House met at 12 noon and papers were laid on the table, Om Birla said he has received a notice from Gogoi for moving a motion of no-confidence against the government. He asked members supporting the admission of the motion to stand after which INDIA alliance members, including Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, stood up for a head count, as reported by PTI.

Birla then admitted the motion expressing want of confidence in the Union Council of Ministers. The alliance of 26 opposition parties, INDIA, had decided to move the motion in order to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak in Parliament on the Manipur violence, senior leaders of the front said. The Opposition parties contend that it is also a strategy to make the prime minister speak in Parliament on the crucial matter, even as the government has been insisting that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will reply to the debate on the Manipur situation.

Earlier, Manickam Tagore, Congress whip in Lok Sabha, said the No-Confidence Motion was the Opposition's last weapon against the government. "INDIA alliance is together, INDIA alliance has proposed this idea and yesterday it was decided. We wanted to break the arrogance of Modi. He is behaving as an arrogant person - not to come to the Parliament and make a statement on Manipur...We feel that it is our duty to use this last weapon," ANI quoted Tagore as saying.

While the BJP government faces no threat due to the motion as the NDA has a comfortable majority in Lok Sabha, the Opposition has said the objective was to push PM Modi to reply in Parliament on the Manipur issue. The government has been insisting that only Union Home Minister Amit Shah would reply to a debate on the Manipur situation. The decision to move the motion was taken in a meeting attended by Opposition MPs at the chamber of Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament on Tuesday.

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