House paralysed by govt to avert trust vote: Oppn
UPROAR Govt calls motion a stunt but says ready for discussion
NEWDELHI: There was high drama in Parliament on Monday with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Sumitra Mahajan, citing a disorderly house to disallow, for the second time (the first time was on Friday), no-confidence motions against the government.
The move provoked protests from opposition leaders with several claiming, outside the house, that the protests by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi that caused the disorderliness were stage-managed by the National Democratic Alliance.
The NDA has a clear majority in the Lok Sabha and there is no chance of the no-confidence motion going through, but analysts say the government seems eager to avoid the discussion that such a motion would entail in the house. Parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar denied these charges and said the government is ready to face a no-confidence motion both inside and outside Parliament. “The Modi government is ready to face the no-confidence motion. We have support outside as well as inside the House. The BJP government is a government of majority. And when we consider the NDA, we have two-thirds majority,” Kumar told reporters .
Still, on Monday, both Houses of Parliament were adjourned abruptly on Monday — the eleventh day in a row that this is happening — amid protests and disorder, casting a shadow on the remaining period of the ongoing budget session. The TSR Congress and the TDP again served notice for no-confidence against the NDA government. The possibilities of any discussion on the motion dissolved in the sloganeering and protests by AIADMK demanding a Cauvery management board and TRS members asking for more reservation in government jobs .