On Wednesday, the coalition government of BJP-JJP in Haryana defeated the Congress’ no-confidence motion in the state Assembly. The no-confidence motion was supported by 32 members, including all Congress MLAs, after over three hours of discussion. But all the BJP-JJP MLAs voted against the motion, which was finally opposed by 55 members.
Ram Kumar Gautam and Devender Babli, the two JJP MLAs, who had been vocal for their party to withdraw support from the BJP, also opposed the no-confidence motion.
The motion of no confidence against the BJP-JJP government, brought by the main opposition Congress, was on Wednesday taken up in the Haryana Assembly. As the debate on the motion started with the BJP and Congress legislators attacking each other, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta extended the two-hour discussion by an additional hour.
After the end of the Question Hour, the Speaker admitted the notice of no-confidence motion against the Council of Ministers and two hours were kept for discussion. Later, the Speaker extended the discussion on the no-confidence motion by an additional hour.
“I have received no-confidence motion from the Leader of Opposition (Bhupinder Singh Hooda) and 27 other Congress MLAs,” the Speaker said.
Moving the no-confidence motion in the Assembly, Hooda said, “More than 250 farmers died on the border. I presented their names but I did not find it in the newspaper.” He said, “I do not want to talk about the farm legislations because it will be said that it is a central subject. But I am pained to see farmers sitting on roads at Delhi’s borders. These are farmers from everywhere, all states. Nobody blocked traffic, yet the government used force on them, water canons, lathi charge, iron rods were used to hit farmers. The government must remember that even iron rods cannot break a farmer’s head.”
Highlighting the farmers’ protests, the Congress argued that the three farm laws brought by the government were in favour of corporates. The BJP, on the other hand, accused the Congress of instigating the farmers’ protests and misleading farmers over the laws.
“If deputy CM sees bloodstains of 250 farmers on his chair, he should resign,” said Raghubir Kadian, urging Dushyant and Naina Chautala to withdraw their support from BJP.
In the 90-member Haryana Assembly, currently having an effective strength of 88 members, the ruling BJP has 40 members, the JJP 10 and the Congress 30. Seven are Independents, five of whom are supporting the government, while one member is of the Haryana Lokhit Party, who has also extended support to the government.
(PTI)
