No-confidence motion in Parliament: What is likely to unfold?
Narendra Modi government by Assam Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi. According to reports, speaker Om Birla has called a meeting of floor leaders of all parties in Lok Sabha on Thursday, 27 July. As per the convention, once admitted the discussion on the motion has to be held within 10 days.
The Monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to end on 11 August. While the opposition has been clear about the fact that their numbers in the lower house of the parliament do not ensure a majority and probably the no-confidence motion will fail, which happens otherwise will lead to the immediate downfall of the PM Narendra Modi-led government's downfall. Meanwhile, all MPs belonging to the Opposition's INDIA bloc will wear black clothes to Parliament on Thursday as a mark of protest against the government over the Manipur issue, sources said.
All MPs belonging to the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) have been asked to come dressed in black to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi not making a statement on the Manipur issue in Parliament till now, an MP of the Opposition bloc said. This will be the 28th no-confidence motion in independent India’s history. A no-confidence emotion in a democratically elected governance is a tactical tool in the hands of the opposition which uses the same to bring to a declaration if the elected ruling party still enjoys majority support in the Lok Sabha.
Any Lok Sabha MP, who can garner the support of 50 colleagues, can, at any point of time, introduce a motion of no-confidence against the Council of Ministers. The opposition uses this tool to highlight the ruling party's failures in governance and discuss them further. In this case, the Opposition bloc has been blaming the Prime
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