What is a no-confidence motion?
Article 75 of the Indian Constitution specifies that the council of ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, there is no mention of a no-confidence motion in the Constitution: All it means is that the majority of the Lok Sabha members must be with the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
Article 118 of the Constitution permits each House of Parliament to make its own rules for conduct of business. Rule 198 of the Lok Sabha specifies the procedure for a motion of no-confidence. Any member might give a written notice before 10 am; the Speaker will read the motion of no-confidence in the House and ask all those favouring the motion be taken up to rise. If there are 50 MPs in favour, the Speaker could allot a date for discussing the motion – but this has to be within 10 days. However, this cannot be done in conditions of din or confusion in the House.
BJD’s Lok Sabha MPs walked out of Lok Sabha right before Friday July 20,2018 ’s debate on the no-confidence motion against the NDA government, citing the discussion was “fruitless” for the people of Odisha.
Minutes before the discussion, BJD’s Parliamentary Party Leader in the Lok Sabha Bhartruhari Mahtab addressed Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. “The Centre, in the last fourteen years, has been unfair to the people of Odisha. This includes 10 years of the UPA government and four years of the NDA government. We hold this discussion fruitless for the people of Odisha”, Mahatab said and walked out. All BJD MPs followed him out of the House.
Article 75 of the Indian Constitution specifies that the council of ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, there is no mention of a no-confidence motion in the Constitution: All it means is that the majority of the Lok Sabha members must be with the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
Article 118 of the Constitution permits each House of Parliament to make its own rules for conduct of business. Rule 198 of the Lok Sabha specifies the procedure for a motion of no-confidence. Any member might give a written notice before 10 am; the Speaker will read the motion of no-confidence in the House and ask all those favouring the motion be taken up to rise. If there are 50 MPs in favour, the Speaker could allot a date for discussing the motion – but this has to be within 10 days. However, this cannot be done in conditions of din or confusion in the House.
BJD’s Lok Sabha MPs walked out of Lok Sabha right before Friday July 20,2018 ’s debate on the no-confidence motion against the NDA government, citing the discussion was “fruitless” for the people of Odisha.
Minutes before the discussion, BJD’s Parliamentary Party Leader in the Lok Sabha Bhartruhari Mahtab addressed Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. “The Centre, in the last fourteen years, has been unfair to the people of Odisha. This includes 10 years of the UPA government and four years of the NDA government. We hold this discussion fruitless for the people of Odisha”, Mahatab said and walked out. All BJD MPs followed him out of the House.
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