New Delhi: After the Opposition parties brought no-confidence motion against the ruling party BJP in the Parliament, Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi statement of year 2019 has gone viral, with many saffron party leaders calling it ‘prediction’.
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During a debate on the President’s speech in the Budget session on February 7, 2019, a video surfaced where Prime Minister Narendra Modi can be heard saying that the opposition should be prepared for another no-confidence motion in 2023.
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He made this remark while referring to his government’s victory in defeating a similar motion the previous year.
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PM Modi’s statement, “I want to offer my best wishes… prepare so much that you get a chance to bring a no-confidence again in 2023,” garnered laughter and desk-thumping from ruling party MPs in the Lok Sabha.
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During a gathering that included Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and other senior party members, Prime Minister Narendra Modi indirectly taunted the Congress party, stating, “This is Samarpan Bhav (service) that from two (MPs) we are sitting here (in power). And the result of ahankar (arrogance) is that from 400, you have come down to 40. Look where you are today…”
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The PM’s remarks alluded to the Congress’s decline in seats from 400 to 40 in previous elections, without explicitly naming the party.
Meanwhile, amid the ongoing deadlock over Manipur, the Congress party has filed a no-confidence motion against the Modi government.
Although the motion, supported by the INDIA coalition of opposition parties, is expected to be defeated in the Lok Sabha due to the government’s significant majority, its primary objective is to compel Prime Minister Modi to address the situation in Manipur.
The ethnic clashes in Manipur have been a major cause of the continuous logjam in Parliament since the beginning of the Monsoon Session on July 20. The situation escalated further when a disturbing video of two women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur surfaced just a day before the session, sparking nationwide outrage.
Additionally, a separate no-confidence motion has been filed by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which is not part of the ‘I.N.D.I.A’ coalition.