Haryana budget session: No-confidence motion moved by Congress defeated

On the third day of the ongoing budget session, a no-confidence motion by the Congress against the BJP-JJP government in Haryana was defeated through voice vote after the opposition party’s MLAs walked out from the Assembly. Notably, this is the second no-confidence motion brought by the Congress in the second inning of the Manohar Lal Khattar led-government. Earlier, a no-confidence moved by the Congress against the state government around three years ago was also defeated. At present, the BJP emerges as the largest political party in the state with 41 legislators. 90-member House while its alliance partner, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), has 10. Apart from this, Six of the seven Independent members along with lone Haryana Lokhit Party MLA, Gopal Kanda. in the House have extended support to the BJP. In this series, the main opposition Congress which moved the no-confidence motion against the ruling BJP-JJP led government, has 30 MLAs and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has one. At the end of a four-hour-long discussion on the motion, Congress members walked out expressing dissatisfaction with the Chief Minister’s reply. The motion was then defeated through voice vote. Speaker Gyan Chand Gupta said that the motion has been defeated by the ruling parties along with the support of MLA present in house anonymously. Further , he admitted the no-confidence motion after a head count of over 18 MLAs as required under the rules. Before the session, Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda had accused the Khattar government of having failed on all fronts stating that the Congress would bring a no-confidence motion during the session.