TNPSC Thervupettagam

No confidence motion against NDA Government

July 22 , 2018 2322 days 914 0
  • On July 18, 2018, Kesineni Srinivas, an MP from the BJP’s former ally Telugu Desam Party moved a no-confidence motion against the NDA government.
  • Speaker of the Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan accepted the motion and set the date for debate and voting as July 20, 2018.
  • So far, 26 no-confidence motions have been moved in Lok Sabha since Independence.
  • Acharya Kripalani moved the first no-confidence motion in August 1963, immediately after the India–China war.
  • Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister faced the most number of no-confidence motions – 15.
  • All the no-confidence motions have been defeated except when Prime Minister Morarji Desai resigned during the discussions in July 1979.
  • No-confidence motion, the 27th in Parliamentary history, is the first to be admitted in 15 years.
  • The last was in 2003 when the Congress party moved a no-confidence motion against prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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