The Congress on Friday decided to move a no-confidence motion against the Union Government on March 27. The TDP and the TRS have already given notices for no-confidence motions, but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has refused to take these up due to unruly scene in the House.
Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the Lower House’s secretary general giving notice to include the no-confidence motion in the list of business on March 27.
“This House expresses no-confidence in the Council of Ministers,” the notice stated.
Earlier, the Lok Sabha Speaker adjourned the House proceedings for the day following noisy protests by Opposition MPs.
Mahajan said she cannot not take up the notices for no-confidence motions as the House was not in order.
The requisite head-count of members supporting the notices can be done only
if they are in their seats,
she added.
The YSR Congress-TDP MPs have moved the no-confidence motion to protest against the Centre for non-implementation of the promised Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh.
However, in his notice to the Lok Sabha secretariat, Kharge did not give any reason for movie the motion.
Meanwhile, the AIADMK leader Thambi Durai, who is Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, said his party would not support the no-confidence motion by the TDP or YSR Congress or even the Congress.
“Let the Congress introduce a non-confidence motion against the Centre stating that the motion is being introduced because of the failure of the Narendra Modi Government to constitute the Cauvery Management Board as per the verdict of the Supreme
Court. Then we will think about our strategy,” said Durai while speaking to a Tamil 24X7 news channel.
The AIADMK and the TDP have been disrupting the proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament for the last two weeks demanding the constitution of the CMB and special category status for Andhra Pradesh respectively.
Reacting to the DMK working president MK Stalin’s demand that the AIADMK should either support the no-confidence motion to be moved by the TDP or move a no-confidence motion on its own, Durai said the statement reflected the ignorance of Stalin.
“The TDP and the State of Andra Pradesh have always been inimical to Tamil Nadu. Many labourers from Tamil Nadu who were taken to Andhra Pradesh to work as casual labourers were shot dead by the AP Police allegedly in stage managed encounters. Last month saw seven or eight Tamil labourers getting killed in the forests of AP. How can we cooperate with a political party which patronises the murders of Tamil workers?” asked Durai. He also said the AIADMK had only 37 members in the House while the mandatory requirement is that such a motion should have the support of 54 members.
Durai also belittled the suggestion by Stain that all MPs from Tamil Nadu should resign from the House in protest against the Centre’s failure to constitute CMB. “What is the guarantee that the Centre would constitute the CMB if we resign? Stalin has a hidden agenda and that is to make his step sister Kanimozhi resign from the Rajya Sabha so that he could nominate one of his trusted aides as replacement,” said Durai.