The opposition parties‘ proposed no-confidence motion will not necessarily pass the test of numbers, but the opposition parties say they will win the battle of perception by dominating the government on the Manipur issue during the debate.
He claims that it is also a strategy to get the Prime Minister to address the Manipur issue in Parliament as the government insists that only the Union Home Minister will answer the debate on the situation in Manipur.
The fate of the no-confidence motion is a foregone conclusion as the numbers are clearly stacked in favor of the BJP and the opposition group has less than 150 members in the Lower House.
Sources said the opposition is likely to issue a notice of “no confidence” in the Modi government by Wednesday after the opposition group takes a final decision. Opposition leaders said the INDIA alliance will use the no-confidence motion as a tool to hold the government accountable on the floor of Parliament and target Manipur, which the government has so far tried to avoid in Parliament.
The alliance partners will meet at 10 am on Wednesday to finalize their plans to move the bill and Congress MPs have been asked to report to the Congress Parliamentary Party office after the opposition meeting. The Congress party also moved the triple whip to all its MPs in the Lok Sabha to be present in the House.
The Congress is silent on the issue of the no-confidence motion but agrees to move it, with the leader saying it is the only way it can focus on the Manipur issue and get the prime minister to address Parliament.
Leader says “In the perception game, it is a good idea to target the government on the Manipur issue (through a no-confidence motion),” the leader said.
Sources said that the focus of the entire country will be on the “no-confidence motion” on Manipur and this is likely to help the opposition in the perception game.
They said that after the no-confidence motion was moved, it must be placed on the agenda and up to 50 MPs in the Lok Sabha must support it for it to be taken up in the House.
Asked whether the opposition would move a “no-confidence motion” against the government on the Manipur issue, Congress chief spokesperson Manish Tewari said at a party briefing that all options are open in the parliamentary system and tradition.
All options under the rules are available before the opposition
Manish Tewari said “In a parliamentary democracy, all the tools available in the rules and procedures of the Lok Sabha remain open to the opposition, as we have pointed out in the last three or four days, the reasons why we are insisting that the Prime Minister address both the Houses of Parliament on the Manipur issue is the sensitivity (of the situation in the border state) and the corruption that Manipur has unfortunately witnessed in the last 78-80 days”.
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