No-trust move back on table as session begins

NEWDELHI: The monsoon session of Parliament will start on a note of confrontation from day one on Wednesday as Opposition parties, including the Congress, have announced their intention to press no-confidence motions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp)-led National Democratic Alliance government.

NDA’S estranged ally Telugu Desam Party (TDP) served notice of a no-confidence motion to the Lok Sabha secretariat on Tuesday to be taken up on Wednesday. The Congress is also in talks with other like-minded parties to oppose the government, the party’s Lok Sabha leader Mallikarjun Kharge said.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) member of Parliament NEWDELHI: Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has proposed to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi that the BJP and the Congress come forward to offer a “new deal” to women. “As part of the new

Mohammed Salim confirmed that the party too will try to move a no-confidence motion. “We will not do it on the first day as we want to discuss some other issues,” he said.

Regional groups like the Telugu Desam Party and its archrival YSR Congress Party, deal, we should approve, in both houses of Parliament, the women reservation bill, the law prohibiting triple talaq and imposing penal consequences on those who violate the law, and the law prohibiting nikah halala,” Prasad wrote to the Congress president.

the ruling and main opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh, pushed no-confidence motions against the government during the budget session of Parliament, but they weren’t taken up in the session in which proceedings were hit by numerous disruptions.