- Lok Sabha adjourned, no-confidence debate to resume on Tuesday.
- MP Mohd Ariff: It is unprecedented in the history of India that the Supreme Court took stringent action against the state government -- that too ruled by the BJP-- bypassing the union government. If the prime minister had at least a bit of shame, or a bit of pride left, he should have resigned from his post
- Manish Tiwary: Four years after abrogation of 370, elections still not held in Jammu & Kashmir
- Rijiju: Before 2014, many people from the Northeast faced racial discrimination and atrocities in Delhi and other major cities of the country. After 2014, the situation changed, and the DGP conference was held in Guwahati for the first time after independence
- Rijiju: India won 7 Olympic medals in 2020 for the first time after PM Modi's focused attention
- Kiren Rijiju: This no-confidence motion has been brought at a very wrong time. The Congress will regret it later. Nothing will happen by naming the alliance I.N.D.I.A when you are actually working against India
- BJD leader Pinaki Misra: Need of the hour is to speak in one voice
- Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena opposes no-confidence motion in Parliament
- Shiv Sena's Arvind Ganpat Sawant rises to speak
- Biju Janata Dal's Pinaki Mishra: I cannot support a No Confidence Motion against a Central Govt today, even though we are against the BJP as a political party...I am grateful for the many things that the Central Govt has done for Odisha which is why, in any case
- Samajwadi Party's Dimple Yadav: The Manipur incident is very sensitive. The Govt has been very insensitive in this matter. This is an arrogant Govt. It was a complete violation of human rights
- Shiv Sena's Shrikant Shinde: When opposition introduced no- confidence motion in 2018, NDA’s tally increased & same will happen in 2024. Voters have shows you no-confidence in 2014 & 2019 & you will score hattrick in 2024
- NCP's Supriya Sule: I demand that the (Manipur) CM must resign immediately...10,000 cases of rioting, murder and rape. Have we become so insensitive? This is the problem with this Govt
- TMC MP Sougata Roy: PM Modi does not believe in parliamentary democracy. Roy In Manipur, 143 people have been killed. 65,000 people have fled the state. Two women were stripped, gang-raped and paraded naked on the streets of Manipur...The CM is helpless. The PM is not coming to the Parliament and he has not gone to the state. Whereas, I.N.D.I.A. parties went there and understood what has happened.
- Opposition: Ticker reflecting govt achievements
- Opposition objects to ticker on 'Sansad TV'
- Opposition: Ticker not reflecting no confidence motion
- DMK's T R Baalu rises to speak in favour of the Opposition's no-confidence motion
- Dubey: Sonia Gandhi following traditional Indian woman’s way of 'Bete ko set karna hai, damaad ko bhent karna hai (need to set up son and take care of son-in-law)'
- Dubey: All Opposition parties fighting against each other
- Dubey: Rahul can never be a Savarkar
- Dubey: SC judgement on Rahul Gandhi only a stay
- Dubey: Congress historically supported Manipur opium lobby
- BJP MP Nishikant Dubey rises to speak against the Opposition's no-confidence motion amid bedlam
- Gogoi: PM silent during wrestlers' protest, PM silent on China
- Gogoi to govt: Never seen divisions between two communities as in Manipur, your politics has created two states
- Gogoi: Home minister Amit Shah promised to return to Manipur, but he did not
- Gogoi: Arms being looted at will in Manipur
- Gogoi: Manipur CM's office has connections to drug trade
- Gogoi: PM's double engine govt failed in Manipur
- Gogoi: Why has the PM not visited Manipur till now?
- Gaurav Gogoi: If Manipur is burning, India is burning
- DMK's T R Balu rises to speak in favour of the Opposition's no-confidence motion
- DMK's T R Balu rises to speak in favour of the Opposition's no-confidence motion
- DMK's T R Balu rises to speak in favour of the Opposition's no-confidence motion
Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, and not Rahul Gandhi, opened the debate from the Opposition side with the Lok Sabha taking up the discussion on the no-confidence motion against the government at 12 noon on Tuesday.
The BJP called a meeting of its parliamentary party on Tuesday ahead of the no-confidence motion, which can be discussed, answered and voted on Wednesday and Thursday.
From the government's side, five ministers are likely to speak during the debate. They are Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kiren Rijiju. Ten other BJP MPs will also participate in the debate, ndtv.com reported.
The motion, which is unlikely to be passed, is the Opposition's way of compelling Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak on the ongoing violence in Manipur, which has dominated the monsoon session of Parliament.
The numbers, for the record
The current strength of the Lok Sabha is 570, which puts the majority mark at 270. This time, the NDA can expect 332 votes. Besides, Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal and Andhra Pradesh's YSR Congress are supporting the NDA. Together, they have 34 MPs, taking the government's numbers to 366.
The united Opposition INDIA has only 142 members.
Prime Minister Modi has so far chosen to stay away from the strife-torn state.
Rahul Gandhi spent two days in Manipur in June, visiting relief camps to meet people displaced by the violence. More than 180 people have died and around 60,000 have fled their homes.
Bid to force PM to speak on Manipur
The very reason for bringing the no-confidence motion was to force the Prime Minister to address the issue in Parliament after his inexplicable reluctance to speak or even tweet about the plight of the people in Manipur, where violence began on May 3.
Modi finally spoke only on July 20 after a video showing two women being paraded naked and physically harassed by a mob became viral on social media and the Supreme Court intervened. Even then, in a two-minute bite to the media before walking into Parliament, he spoke of how the country had been shamed by the incident and appeared to equate the ethnic violence in Manipur with crimes against women in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Rahul had then reacted to Modi’s comment with this tweet: “Prime Minister, the issue is not that it’s a shame for the country. The issue is the immense pain and trauma inflicted on the women of Manipur. Stop the violence immediately.”
'Nothing more important than Manipur'
The Opposition contends that in view of the 180-plus deaths, injuries and displacements of thousands of people since the ethnic violence broke out in May, there is nothing more urgent that can demand the Prime Minister's attention.
The government has argued that after major violence took place in Manipur in 1993 and 1997, no statement was made in Parliament in one case and in the other, the junior home minister had given a statement. Sources told ndtv.com that the government's stance is that in the absence of a precedent, there is no cause for asking for the Prime Minister's statement.
In 2018, Modi had faced a no-confidence motion moved by Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party. The motion was defeated, with the government getting 325 votes. Only 126 votes were in favour of the motion.