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No confidence motion against NDA Government
July 22 , 2018
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- 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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