Key Points
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..
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...
While the Opposition has made this move to make a reluctant government break its silence on the Manipur ethnic violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted this is an opportunity to expose the fissures in the INDIA coalition formed by a disparate group of parties...
When the Opposition moved the no-confidence motion, it knew well that the NDA has a brute majority in the Lok Sabha and faces no threat from this exercise..
Once a government has successfully faced a no-confidence motion or won a trust vote (which is moved by the ruling party itself), then it cannot be challenged again for the next six months...
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