Indira to Modi: When PMs faced no-confidence motion a year ahead of polls

Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, has become the seventh incumbent PM to face a no-confidence motion. This is the seventh instance of a no-confidence motion being accepted within 12 months of a national election.

The Lok Sabha currently has a strength of 543 seats of which five are vacant. The BJP-led NDA has over 330 members, the opposition alliance has over 140 and nearly 60 members belong to parties not aligned to any of the two groups.

The Lok Sabha will take up discussion on the no-confidence motion against the government on August 8 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply to the debate on August 10.

No-Confidence Motion News Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply today to the no-confidence motion moved against his government by the Opposition parties over the Manipur violence. The no-confidence motion debate was initiated by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday. For the last two days, Parliament witnessed fiery discussions by leaders from the government and Opposition over the ethnic clashes in Manipur. On Wednesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in his first speech in the House since he was restored as an MP, launched a scathing attack on the government, accusing it of "dividing" Manipur into two parts. He alleged that BJP's politics in the northeastern state had "murdered" India, drawing an uproar from several party members. A controversy erupted when Rahul Gandhi had given a flying kiss to the BJP members. The moment was not captured on camera, but several women MPs from the party filed a complaint with the Speaker, alleging that the Congress leader indulged in "distasteful" behaviour and "inappropriate" gesture. Stay tuned with indiatoday.in for live updates of the no-confidence debate in Parliament.

No-Confidence Motion Debate in Parliament live: Rahul Gandhi is likely to lead Congress’s charge on Tuesday during no-confidence motion debate in Lok Sabha on the Manipur issue. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face his second no-confidence motion in Parliament today, the first in his second term as the PM. It will be interesting to see what Rahul Gandhi has to say in Parliament on the violence in Manipur, which the Congress leader visited in June. Rahul Gandhi returned to Parliament on Monday after four months after his membership as Lok Sabha MP was restored. Follow indiatoday.in for live updates.

Senior BJP leaders and women MPs today condemned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his alleged “flying kiss” gesture towards Treasury Benches in the Lok Sabha. The gesture apparently followed his speech in the House during the ongoing no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi governm

News News: Starting the debate from the government side on the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, Nishikant Dubey focused a large part of his speech on Congr

The monsoon session of the India Parliament has been enlivened by the oppositions no-confidence motion against the government over its failure to respond to ethnic violence in the state of Manipur. No-confidence motions typically only have relevance when ruling coalitions are fragile. However, the motion is view by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as an opportunity to raise the matter of Manipur in Parliament, while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party regards it as a chance to expose the divisions in the disparate alliance of opposition parties.

No-confidence motion: PM Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the Lok Sabha, so the no-confidence vote will not impact its stability. But a no-confidence motion is often used as a tool by the opposition to force a discussion in the House on particular issues.

After 2018, this would be the second no-confidence motion against Modi's government.