Opposition Front INDIA Plans No Confidence Motion In Lok Sabha: Sources
NDTV
A group of opposition MPs have been sitting in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue at Parliament House since last night in protest against disruption of the monsoon session for a third day.
As the government plans a big legislative push in the Parliament to break through the logjam in both houses over discussion on Manipur, Opposition alliance INDIA is planning to move a no-confidence motion against the government in the Lok Sabha, sources said. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 12 pm soon after Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar finally accepted notices by 50 MPs under Rule 267 to discuss the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. Lok Sabha is also suspended till 2 pm.
Sources say a discussion on Manipur under Rule 267 is likely today in the upper house if the Opposition isn't insistent on its demand that the PM make a comprehensive statement in both house before the discussion starts.
Sources said the government is not expecting the opposition to back down from its demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak in parliament on the Manipur issue, and it will now insist on settling its legislative work. If a bill has to be passed amid uproar, it will be done, sources said.
